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I imagined the satyr plays to have been knock about slap stick comedies, not the kind of thing that could be written down- so they had dialogue and a plot?

Jan-Maat wrote: "I imagined the satyr plays to have been knock about slap stick comedies, not the kind of thing that could be written down- so they had dialogue and a plot?"

On the basis of this single example, yes indeed. Though comic and broad, this piece has serious purpose and is chock-a-block full of ironic allusions to the ongoing Peloponnesian War and sharply critical of "civilized" brutality.