Euripides: Bacchae

by R. A. S. Seaford

Overview

Richard Seaford's edition of Euripides' Bacchae offers the first commentary in English on this fascinating play since that of E. R. Dodds in 1960. It takes account of the studies made on the play since it was written, as well as including discussion of recent scholarship and new research into the cult of Dionysus. Reprinted with an updated General Bibliography in 2015. [Greek text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856686092
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	03/18/1996
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Richard Seaford is Professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, and has published widely on both the Bacchae and the Dionysus cult. His books include Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State (Oxford University Press,1994), Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Dionysos (Routledge, 2006), and Cosmology and the Polis: the Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Table of Contents

	Preface	vi
	Background to the story of Bacchae	vii
	Map of Ancient Greece	viii
	List of characters	1
	Commentary and translation	2
	Synopsis of the play	94
	Pronunciation of names	96
	Introduction to the Greek Theatre	97
	Time line	101
	Index	102

Editorial Reviews

Offers a new line-for-line translation of Euripides' play about the consequences of an attempt in Thebes to suppress the cult of Dionysus. An introduction discusses the cultural background of the play, its author, and ancient tragic theater, and suggests psychological, moral, religious, and political issues raised by the play. --Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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