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    <body><![CDATA[This, dear friends, is a chilling reminder of why I never attend parties.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always thought that Dionysos would've been cheerful, being so associated with wine and all. Turns out that he was a megalomaniacal, invincible demigod, intent on filling women's spirits with a crazed sort of bloodlust, whereupon they would leave their homes to rend wild animals limb from limb and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53728217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>Not that you'd think it's crap.  You'd probably read it with a raised eyebrow and think it was &quot;interesting.&quot;  But there's j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4079523">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu May 14 10:18:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Initially, it seems that the Bacchae is the tale of a sadistic, power-hungry god, and one human's doomed attempt to rescue a city from the god's chaos. However, it is much more complex than merely a weak &quot;good guy&quot; being pitted against an undefeatable villain. It is a story about the dange...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56064913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Women flocking to the mountains to worship Dionysus weave snakes in their hair, suckle wolf cubs, and tear apart cattle (/humans...) with their bare hands!!! <br/><br/>Euripides, writes classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77872595">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even by Greek standards this is pretty morbid and fucked up. Especially the scene at the end with the head, yikes. The Bacchae is just sort of fundamentally weird in a way which most Greek tragedies aren't. The gods are totally crazy, their followers are even more so. Religion, Power, Violence, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65390788">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 02 11:27:54 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't enjoy this as much as I enjoyed Lysistrata. Like Shakespearean dramas it seems like everyone is a trajedy is constantly expounding page long speeches. This play would probably be far more interesting to see than it was to read. I just felt lost as I slogged through some of those monologued....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41022385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually really enjoyed this. I read it on a recommendation from a professor after reading Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. It made Death in Venice more clear to me. Warning: Half of the text (in my version) was filled with footnotes. At times they were elucidating, but alternating between the two p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65001420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65331869">
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for a course at Baylor University entitled: Cultural History of Europe, taught by Dr. Richard Skinner.]]></body>
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    <review id="46827475">
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    <body><![CDATA[So bloody and violent.   Love it.  Don't piss off the Gods, or they will get you.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably one of the more interesting books I read for that class. Plus it was short.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lord of the Flies was a modern adaption of this Greek play, according to its author William Golding.  Only, in Lord of the Flies, civilization vs. savagery is a struggle between good and evil.  But imagine if Ralph, instead of being a goody two shoes (except for that killing Piggy thing), was sexual...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58029211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47209043">
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    <body><![CDATA[My second favorite Greek tragedy.]]></body>
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    <review id="50905298">
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    <body><![CDATA[Bacchae by Euripides (1999)]]></body>
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    <review id="60799096">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dave]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[very influential]]></body>
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    <review id="4255943">
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    <name><![CDATA[Maura]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4255943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17994099">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a study edition of a new translation I found in a used bookstore. It made me re-think what I had thought abot the play for years. I didn't change my mind a lot, but I expanded my thinking about the play.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mmm original Greek.  Euripides you are quite the master.  Shame some of it is missing.  And what's with the snakes?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting play.  There are some startling surprizes in this play.  I recommend it for anyone who thinks that Jesus is the only son of God by virgin birth.]]></body>
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