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.
Genres
- 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)
- Rhesus (Legendary character)
- Translations into English
- Translations into Welsh
- Trojan War
- Dramatic production
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
- Greek drama, history and criticism
- Euripides
- Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)
- Drama (dramatic works by one author)
- Classical philology
- British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
- Greek drama, translations into english
- Textual Criticism
- Dionysus
- Pentheus
- Bacchantes--drama
- Pa3975.b2 k5 1979
- Greek drama (tragedy)--translations into english
- Mythology, greek
- Mythology, greek--drama
- Pa3975 .a2 1994
- 882/.01
- Dionysus (greek deity)--drama
- Pentheus (greek mythology)--drama
- Pa3975.b2 w66 1998
- Language and linguistics
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