Pritchard, D 2012, ‘Athletics in Satyric Drama’, Greece and Rome, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 1-6.
Pritchard’s, Athletics in Satyric Drama, discusses the prevalence of satyr-plays and satyric drama based upon athletic festivals in the Classical and Archaic period. Further discussing the impact this has on historians’ understanding and elucidation of the athletics of ancient Greece. Pritchard also uses the works of authors such as Euripides to explore the concept of ‘the athlete’s morality’, maintaining qualities such as “sôphrosunê (‘moderation’)… [and] arête (‘courage’)” (Pritchard, 2012, 1 ) as well as the public’s view of athletics. The Satyr plays referenced throughout the article such as Euripides’ Cyclops, all place the satyr chorus in a location which they are not equipped with the skills to succeed and therefore comically fail, by placing the chorus within an athletic competition it emphasises the attributes of the athletes, and the reverence the audience had for the competitors. Consistently throughout his writing, Pritchard refers to extensive footnotes which in-turn allow the reader to check his references and draw their own conclusions. While Pritchard references works such as Games by Archaeus, and many works of Euripides, the number of surviving…show more content… Despite this, Pritchard provides substantiation for his claims through his use of the aforementioned plays and footnote references to his own previous papers and other authors such as
