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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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    <![CDATA[This translation is intended primarily for classroom use. It is aimed first of all at being clear and true to the basic meaning of the text. After that Paul Woodruff has tried to bring across some of the beauty of poetry given the chorus as well as the rhetorical power and cleverness of the dialogue and speeches. The translation of this play through manuscript is unusually troublesome; many lines seem to have fallen out during copying and storage over the centuries and many errors have been introduced Although the author has supplied a few lines to fill small gaps where the meaning is obvious, he has not devised speeches to make up for the lost passages at the end; instead the author has included an appendix with the main evidence that pertains to them.]]>
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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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    <![CDATA[Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama aims to eliminate the boundary between classics students and drama students. Euripides: Bacchae is the second in the series, and is aimed at college level students in North America. Features of the book include full commentary running alongside the translation, notes on pronunciation and a plot synopsis. Background information is also provided, along with suggestions to encourage discussion.]]>
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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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    <![CDATA[Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements.    Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in Greece from Asia proclaiming his godhood and preaching his orgiastic religion. He expects to be embraced in Thebes, but the Theban king, Pentheus, forbids his people to worship him and tries to have him arrested. Enraged, Bacchus drives Pentheus mad and leads him to the mountains, where Pentheus' own mother, Agave, and the women of Thebes tear him to pieces in a Bacchic frenzy.    Gibbons, a prize-winning poet, and Segal, a renowned classicist, offer a skilled new translation of this central text of Greek tragedy.]]>
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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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    <![CDATA[Iphigenia among the Taurians     Bacchae     Iphigenia at Aulis     Rhesus      The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works.  Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world.  Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays.  The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy.  Lastly, Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, is a thrilling, action-packed Iliad in miniature, dealing with a grisly event in the Trojan War.]]>
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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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    <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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    <body><![CDATA[Read for a course at Baylor University entitled: Cultural History of Europe, taught by Dr. Richard Skinner.]]></body>
    
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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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    <![CDATA[This translation is intended primarily for classroom use. It is aimed first of all at being clear and true to the basic meaning of the text. After that Paul Woodruff has tried to bring across some of the beauty of poetry given the chorus as well as the rhetorical power and cleverness of the dialogue and speeches. The translation of this play through manuscript is unusually troublesome; many lines seem to have fallen out during copying and storage over the centuries and many errors have been introduced Although the author has supplied a few lines to fill small gaps where the meaning is obvious, he has not devised speeches to make up for the lost passages at the end; instead the author has included an appendix with the main evidence that pertains to them.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My second favorite Greek tragedy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bacchae by Euripides (1999)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[very influential]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Euripides: Bacchae]]>
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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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    <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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    <![CDATA[Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama aims to eliminate the boundary between classics students and drama students. Euripides: Bacchae is the second in the series, and is aimed at college level students in North America. Features of the book include full commentary running alongside the translation, notes on pronunciation and a plot synopsis. Background information is also provided, along with suggestions to encourage discussion.]]>
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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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    <![CDATA[The <em>Bacchae</em> is one of Euripides' last plays; it was discovered with two others after his death in the winter of 407/6 BC, and when subsequently staged in Athens by his son it won first prize.  Few plays have been so much discussed or have been the subject of such exact and careful linguistic study.  This paperback version of Dodds's classic commentary provides the reader with an invaluable introduction to the play and its subject.  In the introduction to the text and commentary, Professor Dodds discusses the complex nature of the Dionysiac religion and its place at Athens, and examines traditional elements in the play, its place in Euripides' work, and the sources of the text.  An appendix gives some additional fragments to the <em>Bacchae</em>, discovered since the publication of the first edition.<br/><br/>(from the back cover)]]>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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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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    <![CDATA[Bacchae]]>
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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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