1. This play is not a tragedy but a satyr play. How does it differ from the tragedies we have read?
2. How does Euripides' Odysseus differ from the Odysseus of the Odyssey? What about Euripides' Cyclops? Is he the same or different?
3. What does the presence of the satyrs do to the story?
4. What direct echoes of Odyssey 9 are here? What elements of the story are conspicuously different?
5. What do you make of the arguments of Odysseus as to why he should not be eaten, and those of the Cyclops regarding why he should be eaten?
6. Did you feel at all sorry for the Cyclops? Why or why not?