Hunting Tereus

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Abstract

Sophocles’ Tereus was an important play in antiquity, satirised by Aristophanes in his Birds and influential (via its refashioning by Ovid) on later literature and art; unfortunately, however, it did not survive down to our own day, and until recently we had just a few quotations from the drama preserved by other authors. This chapter examines Sophocles’ Tereus in the light of a new (2016) papyrus that illuminates different characteristics of the play, and in particular considers how hunting (according to a likely restoration of the papyrus text) seems to have played a part in the drama – just as it would in a later retelling of the myth in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, and just as an episode from the myth as painted by Titian was chosen by the King of Spain to decorate a royal hunting lodge in the sixteenth century. What is it about the Tereus myth that makes it so perennially associated with the hunt?
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTereus through the Ages
EditorsA. Abbattista , C. Blanco, M. Haley, G. Savani
Place of PublicationBerlin and Boston
Publisherde Gruyter
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 20 Jul 2023

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