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The Bakkhai / by Euripides ; translated by Robert Bagg.
- Title
- The Bakkhai / by Euripides ; translated by Robert Bagg.
- Author
- Euripides
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1978.
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- Additional Authors
- Bagg, Robert
- Description
- 82 p.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- The tragedy is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus's cousin). The god Dionysus appears at the beginning of the play and proclaims that he has arrived in Thebes to avenge the slander, which has been repeated by his aunts, that he is not the son of Zeus. In response, he intends to introduce Dionysian rites into the city, and he intends to demonstrate to the king, Pentheus, and to Thebes that he was indeed born a god. At the end of the play, Pentheus is torn apart by the women of Thebes and his mother Agave bears his head on a pike to her father Cadmus.
- Uniform Title
- Bacchae. English
- Alternative Title
- Bacchae.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama
- Tragedies
- Tragedies.
- Drama.
- Note
- Translation of Bacchae.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0870231901. 087023191X
- LCCN
- ^^^77090732^
- OCLC
- 3516165
- SCSB-11909726
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library