The Bacchae (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Euripides
- First Published: 405
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Remote antiquity
- Setting: Thebes, in Boeotia
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Religion, Kings, queens, or royalty, Gods or goddesses, Cults, Greek or Roman times, Sacrifice, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Thebes, ancient, Boeotia
Characters Discussed
Dionysus (di-eh-NI-suhs), also called Bromius, Evius, and Bacchus (BA-kuhs). He is a god of the general fertility of nature and especially of wine. He has been traveling through the world spreading his teachings but has met with opposition at Thebes, where he appears disguised as his own prophet to take measures on the human level to overcome his opponents. He has driven his mother’s sisters (he was the son of Semele by Zeus) to frenzy because they refused to recognize him as a god, and they now revel as thyrsus-bearing Bacchantes with the other women of...
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