His play 'The Persians', first performed in 472 ... Drama was classified according to three different types or genres: comedy, tragedy and satyr plays.

THE CLASSICS are never far away from Tony Harrison’s work and their relevance in the modern age is at the heart of this play which explores the 1907 discovery of a lost Sophocles satyr play on an ...

King Midas was the ruler of Phrygia. One day, Midas found a satyr - a creature with the body of a man and legs of a goat - in need of help. So Midas took the satyr home and looked after him.