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The Bacchae by Euripides

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Book name: The Bacchae (2024)
Category: Classics
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Pages: 96 pages
ISBN13: 1854594117
ISBN: 1854594117
Language: English
Publication data: April 15, 1999, 7 a.m.
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently hysterical--celebration of the feast of Dionysus, the God of wine.

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Euripides

Euripides

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Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (ca. 480 BC–406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. More of his plays ha… Read more