Bakkhai

Name: Bakkhai
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ISBN: 9780870231919

ISBN-10: 087023191X

ISBN-13: 9780870231919

Edition: 1978

Authors: Euripides, Robert Bagg

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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 anexemplary 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 drivesPentheus mad and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 5/26/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 94
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Introduction	p. 3
On the Translation	p. 33
Bakkhai	p. 43
Characters	p. 44
Notes on the Text	p. 99
Reconstruction of the Fragmentary Ending	p. 134
Glossary	p. 142
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