- Bacchantes, Criticism and interpretation, Dionysus (Greek deity), Drama
In Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre, Euripides tells the story of king Pentheus' resistance to the worship of Dionysus and his horrific punishment by the god: dismemberment at the hands of Theban women.
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About the book
- Author
- Euripides
- First published
- 1821
- Pages
- 142
- Publisher
- Typ. Clarendon, Oberon, Sociéte d'edition "Les Belles Lettres"
- Editions
- 127
- Language
- Dutch, English, Swedish, epo
- ISBN
- 9780451620583
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“To one side, a road dips steeply into lower background, lined by the bodies of crucified slaves mostly in the skeletal stage.”
Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his.[1] Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://e
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