The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus is a 1990 hit play by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison. It is partially based on Ichneutae a satyr play by the fifth-century BC Athenian dramatist Sophocles which was found in fragments at the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus.In addition to its classical content Harrison’s play is also a dramatised account of the discovery of the papyrus fragments containing Sophocles’ play by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt.
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Apollo Silenus Hermes Bernard Grenfell Arthur Hunt Kyllene Satyrs
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