The Bacchae by Euripides

By: Mentor New York
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  • Euripides' Bacchae tells of Dionysus, the God, come to the city of Thebes, there to drive mad those who refuse participation in his ecstatic rites, sing and dance on the mountainside and worship him as God. A family tale as well as a sacrificial rite, in it Dionysus drives his own aunts mad and lures his cousin, Pentheus, cross-dressed as a woman, to a humiliating death at his own mother's hands. An extraordinarily beautiful, utterly terrifying tale.
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Episodes
  • The Bacchae by Euripides - Note on the Bacchae

    The Bacchae by Euripides - Note on the Bacchae
    Jul 16 2023
    11 mins
  • The Bacchae by Euripides - Chapter 2

    The Bacchae by Euripides - Chapter 2
    Jul 16 2023
    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The Bacchae by Euripides - Chapter One

    The Bacchae by Euripides - Chapter One
    Jul 16 2023
    57 mins

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