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en-wikipedia-org-5956		Cyclops (play) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4005	719	71	The satyr play as a medium was generally understood as a "tragedy at play".[11] It relied extensively on the multifarious connotations which surrounded the concepts of "playfulness (paidia), education (paideia), child (pais), slave (pais), playful (paidikos), and childishness (paidia)".[12] In Cyclops Euripides employed "metapoetically loaded terms" like second and double and new to highlight interactions with his sources, familiar and foundational texts in Athenian education.[13][14] The characters in Cyclops are not ignorant of Euripides' sources.[15] "Silenus 'knows his Odyssey rather well'".[16] Euripides' Cyclops knows about the Trojan War and gives Odysseus his opinion of it.[17] By playing with metapoetic images throughout the play Euripides fostered "a collective consciousness" in his democratic audience and facilitated their recognition that cooperation was necessary throughout Athens if they were to overcome their enemies.[18][19][20]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5956.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5956.txt