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In 1907 Grenfell and Hunt, the Holmes and Watson of Oxford papyrology, tracked down fragments of a lost Satyr play by Sophocles, The Ichneutae, on a rubbish tip of ancient Oxyrhynchus in the deserts of Egypt. Satyr plays, now largely forgotten, where an integral part of Greek drana.