Translation Tuesday: Prologue to Bacchae by Euripides

The third in a series on translated work features the prologue to one of the most famous plays in history, translated by Aaron Poochigian

Dionysus:

Here I am, Dionysus, Zeus’s son,

I have compelled this town to rant and howl, dressed it in fawnskin

Beat time now, and let the townsfolk stare!

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Published on November 10, 2015 10:47

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