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Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements.
Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in Greece from Asia proclaiming his godhood and preaching his orgiastic religion. He expects to be embraced in Thebes, but the Theban king, Pentheus, forbids his people to worship him and tries to have him arrested. Enraged, Bacchus drives Pentheus mad and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes tear him to pieces in a Bacchic frenzy.
Gibbons, a prize-winning poet, and Segal, a renowned classicist, offer a skilled new translation of this central text of Greek tragedy.
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Euripides (c. 480-406 BCE) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. Reginald Gibbons is at Northwestern University. Charles Segal is at Harvard University.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0195125983
- ISBN 13 9780195125986
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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