Talk:Satyr play

message: I've gone through and changed multiple things that are incorrect within this article, most notably the labelling of Satyr plays as 'comedy' (which they were not, they have a basis in tragedy, but the tragedy is exaggerated and warped so as to be funny; but it is very seperate from Greek the comedy of Aristophanes and co, secondly the statement about the chorus (they were ALWAYS Satyrs, that's why they're called 'Satyr Plays') and mythology (You could argue that all tragedy is mythological in some form- only Euripides breaks with it in any significant way, and comedy is absolutely littered with mythology. But in any case, Satyr plays were based on mythological events which are then warped for humour- see the Cyclops) as well as some additional info about their purpose. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.114.182.17 (talk) 18:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual errors 

message: The subject of the Origins of the satyr play section of the The satyr play and Euripides is specifically on the topic of this article and doesn't belong in an article on a play of this style. Bongomatic 08:15, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: AgreeOn this note, I think it is undeniable that it belongs at satyr play, and we may actually want to take the entire article into the two related articles and have it deleted.  Tealwisp (talk) 23:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger of Editing [[The satyr play and Euripides' Cyclops#Origins of the satyr play]] 

message: The play mentioned in the reference is not a satyr but a comedy, so possibly a bad example? 198.142.44.250 (talk) 15:14, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  re: "gang rape Helen" 

message: The idea that tragedy evolved out of religious ritual is an old one, and is not believed by modern historians. See Michael Grant for a rejoinder. I recommend deleting that sentence since it is not supported by any citation. 140.161.30.43 (talk) 19:10, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  utter nonsense 

message: Scholar, Mark Griffith, is used as a source in this article, his book, Greek Satyr Play; Five Studies (2015), quotes verbatim the first two sentences of this article (“Satyr plays were an ancient greek form of…” etc.), which happen to be unsourced.  But Griffith quotes them as an example of how the satyr play has been misrepresented. GümsGrammatiçus (talk) 15:24, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I edited the lead section, adding sources. GümsGrammatiçus (talk) 05:59, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  A criticism from one of the sources 

message: I request that someone (e.g. the person who wrote the caption) cite a passage in ancient literature that supports the assertion found in the caption that maenads were male as well as female, and I suggest that in the absence of such citation the reference to male maenads be deleted.
:I removed the unsourced "male and female" phrase.  The original image file on Wikimedia (created by ) has the phrase, it should be corrected as well. - Åüñîçńøł (talk) 16:25, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  The previous caption did not assert that the "maenads were male as well as female", rather what it was trying to say was that the satyr and the maenad depicted were respectively male and female. Paul August ☎ 17:15, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

text: Yes, I agree there is no need to specify gender. Nor was I saying that we should specify the sex. Nor was I the one who wrote that caption. (So no need to lecture me about how "ridiculous" you found it). Rather, I was merely trying to point out that the IP had  misinterpreted the old caption, which may or (may not) have do to with your comment about the "original image file on Wikimedia" needing to "be corrected". Paul August ☎ 14:52, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: All's well. Paul August ☎ 03:06, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sex and the maenad