The Bacchae
by Euripides, Michael Cacoyannis | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0452008859 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0452008859 Global Overview for this book
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I got this for a bookclub - never read it. oops. Now I'm moving to CA, and hoping it will find a good home.
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from the Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature at amazon.com
Bacchae, also called Bacchants (Greek plural Bakchai) Drama produced about 406 BC by Euripides. It is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In Bacchae the god Dionysus arrives in Greece from Asia intending to introduce his orgiastic worship there. He is disguised as a charismatic young Asian holy man and is accompanied by his women votaries, who make up the play's chorus. He expects to be accepted first in Thebes, but the Thebans reject his divinity and refuse to worship him, and the city's young king, Pentheus, tries to arrest him. In the end Dionysus drives Pentheus insane and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes in a bacchic frenzy tear him to pieces.
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from the Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature at amazon.com
Bacchae, also called Bacchants (Greek plural Bakchai) Drama produced about 406 BC by Euripides. It is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In Bacchae the god Dionysus arrives in Greece from Asia intending to introduce his orgiastic worship there. He is disguised as a charismatic young Asian holy man and is accompanied by his women votaries, who make up the play's chorus. He expects to be accepted first in Thebes, but the Thebans reject his divinity and refuse to worship him, and the city's young king, Pentheus, tries to arrest him. In the end Dionysus drives Pentheus insane and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes in a bacchic frenzy tear him to pieces.
Journal Entry 2 by ktkate at Panera Bread - Forbes Ave, Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, August 13, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (8/13/2005 UTC) at Panera Bread - Forbes Ave, Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
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On the bookshelf closest to the Forbes Ave doors. Sit in big leather chair and look for the book on the shelves behind you.
On the bookshelf closest to the Forbes Ave doors. Sit in big leather chair and look for the book on the shelves behind you.
