The Bacchae
by Euripides
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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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Bacchae: Iphigenia at Aulis ; Rhesus
2002, Harvard University Press
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Bacchae.: Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.
1906, G. Allen
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Bacchai.: Bacchae. In usum studiosae juventutis recensuit et illustravit Petrus Elmsley. Ed. auctior indicibusque instructa.
1822, Sumptibus C.H.F. Hartmanni
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