@inbook{283ef3bb5fe14faba71e829a5d77df3c,
title = "Hunting Tereus",
abstract = "Sophocles{\textquoteright} 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{\textquoteright} 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{\textquoteright}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?",
author = "Finglass, \{P. J.\}",
year = "2025",
month = jul,
day = "21",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783110728705",
series = "Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes",
publisher = "de Gruyter",
editor = "\{Abbattista \}, A. and C. Blanco and M. Haley and G. Savani",
booktitle = "Tereus through the Ages",
address = "Germany",
}