Jan 3, 2010

The Bacchae | The Bacchae

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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

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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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The Bacchae | The Bacchae

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