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Bacchae
About this work
In Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre, Euripides tells the story of king Pentheus' resistance to the worship of Dionysus and his horrific punishment by the god: dismemberment at the hands of Theban women. Iphigenia at Aulis recounts the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter to Artemis, the price exacted by the goddess for favorable sailing winds. Rhesus dramatizes a pivotal incident in the Trojan War. Although this play was transmitted from antiquity under Euripides' name it probably is not by him; but does give a sample of what tragedy was like after the great fifth-century playwrights. -- JACKET.
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Subjects
- Bacchantes
- Criticism and interpretation
- Dionysus (Greek deity)
- Drama
- Greek drama
- Greek drama (Tragedy)
- Hecuba (Legendary character)
- Helen of Troy (Greek mythology)
- History and criticism
- Ion (Greek mythology)
- Iphigenia (Greek mythology)
- Pentheus (Greek mythology)