The Bacchae
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At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.
This version of Euripides' Bacchae is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael.
GenresDramatik
72 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 1982 by Nick Hern · ISBN 9781854594112
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Editions
2 editions
English
- The Bacchae · Nick Hern · 1998 · ISBN 9781854594112 · 1 reader This page
- Bacchae · New American Library · 1982 · ISBN 9780451620583
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