Euripides: Bacchae 9781472539748, 9780715634301

Accessible introductions to ancient tragedies discuss the main themes of a play and the central developments in modern c

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Euripides: Bacchae
9781472539748, 9780715634301

This is a commentary on Bacchae. It takes account of the great amount written on the play since then as well as the disc

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Euripides' Bacchae is one of the most widely read and performed Greek tragedies. A story of implacable divine venge

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This book consists of two main, interrelated thematic units: the reception of Aeschylus' Dionysiac plays in Bacchae

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This book consists of two main, interrelated thematic units: the reception of Aeschylus' Dionysiac plays in Bacchae

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This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in thei

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This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in thei

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Euripides’ Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world’s most popular dramatist. Yet the play is the most modern, pe

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Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibb

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This new comparative reading of Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their contempo

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