The Bacchae of Euripides (Unabridged)

by Euripedes

Overview

Enjoy this fantastic ancient play by Euripedes. It has been formatted for your NOOK.

CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY


Dionysus, the God; son of Zeus and of the Theban princess Semelê.

Cadmus, formerly King of Thebes, father of Semelê.

Pentheus, King of Thebes, grandson of Cadmus.

Agâvê, daughter of Cadmus, mother of Pentheus.

Teiresias, an aged Theban prophet.

A Soldier of Pentheus' Guard.

Two Messengers.

A Chorus of Inspired Damsels, following Dionysus from the East.

"The play was first produced after the death of Euripides by his son, who bore the same name, together with the 'Iphigenîa in Aulis' and the 'Alcmaeon,' probably in the year 405 B.C."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151365482
Publisher:	Bronson Tweed Publishing
Publication date:	02/19/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	334 KB

About the Author

Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the three whose plays have survived, with the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.