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Bakkhai

Name: Bakkhai
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 39613680
Price: 4308 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Euripides
ISBN: 9780199880812

Euripides

Reginald Gibbons

Charles Segal

Language

English

E-book Adobe ePub DRM

Libristo code: 39613680

Publishers Oxford University Press, February 2001

Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy a... Full description

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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.