Bacchae
by Euripidespublished
April 15th 1999
(first published 1998)
by Nick Hern Books
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Paperback, 96 pages
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1854594117
(isbn13: 9781854594112)
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Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama aims to eliminate the boundary between classics students and drama students. Euripides: Bacchae is the second ...more
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This, dear friends, is a chilling reminder of why I never attend parties.
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Read in February, 1998
You know how sometimes you try to explain why you think a book is amazing to someone else and (s)he just flat out doesn't get it? This play is like that.
Not that you'd think it's crap. You'd probably read it with a raised eyebrow and think it was "interesting." But there's just too much conspiring against a casual reader being able to appreciate what a pupil-dilating, jaw-dropping work of art this is.
First, it's a play, written with specific artistic conventions, meant to be...more
Not that you'd think it's crap. You'd probably read it with a raised eyebrow and think it was "interesting." But there's just too much conspiring against a casual reader being able to appreciate what a pupil-dilating, jaw-dropping work of art this is.
First, it's a play, written with specific artistic conventions, meant to be...more
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Read in November, 2004
I read this play in an ancient literature class I had in college, that was pretty much my favorite class the whole time I was in school. This play is really beautiful. It has plently of cross dressing, and all of these women are seduced by Bacchus and run away to live with wild animals in the forest. Great scenes with women suckling wolves and honey running down mountain sides - with a very violent, satisfying ending.
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Who says the classics can't speak to us today? A new production just opened on Broadway with Alan Cumming playing Dionysus as a preening pop-star androgyne with a mean streak, with the Maenads as his groupies. Works for me.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/20...
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Loving the Greek Tragedies! Horrific ending with an interesting moral behind it. What are the "limits of man"? Relevant question, Euripides.
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Generally, I'm not a big fan of Greek tragedy. This one is short, sweet, and incredibly strange and violent. Nothing better than hordes of naked women dancing, having orgies, and tearing their husbands apart limb by limb.
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