Bakkhai
1st Edition
Published in December 2001
161 pages
978-0-19-972593-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 an exemplary 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 drives Pentheus mad and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes tear him to pieces in a Bacchic frenzy.
Gibbons, a prize-winning poet, and Segal, a renowned classicist, offer a skilled new translation of this central text of Greek tragedy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
File size
5,86 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-19-972593-9 (9780199725939)
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02/2001
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- On the Translation
- Bakkhai
- Characters
- Notes on the Text
- Appendix: Reconstruction of the Fragmentary Ending
- Glossary
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- Z
