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These are the Fragments of Aristias of Phlius, a tragic poet of the fifth century BC and son of the dramatist Pratinas. In 467 BC he took second place to Aeschylus with plays that included his father's work. His own plays are lost, and only a few lines and words survive in later quotations. They come from the Antaeus, the satyr play Cyclops, the Keres and other dramas, including an exchange in which the Cyclops complains that his wine has been watered.
Aristias was remembered especially for satyr plays, and Pausanias says that those of Aristias and Pratinas were the most admired after Aeschylus's. The Cyclops fragment is of particular interest beside Euripides' surviving Cyclops, as another treatment of the same comic episode. Although the remains are scant, they give some sense of early satyr drama.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: TrGF I 9 F 1–8). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).