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The Bacchae

by Euripides

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Note on the Bacchae
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Dionysus comes home to Thebes disguised as a mortal because the city refuses to call him a god. His cousin Pentheus, young and confident in his own reason, outlaws the new worship and jails the stranger. What follows is a slow inversion of everything the king believes about control: the god drives the women of Thebes into ecstasy on Mount Cithaeron, then coaxes Pentheus into a woman's dress and up the mountain to spy on them, where his own mother, out of her mind, mistakes him for a lion. Euripides wrote it in Macedonia at the end of his life, and Athens saw it only after his death, in 405 BCE. Free to read here in PDF and EPUB.

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Euripides

Euripides wrote for the Athenian stage through the long war with Sparta, and his sympathies ran toward the losers: slaves, foreigners, captives, women. Roughly nineteen of his ninety-odd plays survive, the largest surviving body of work by any Greek tragedian. He died in Macedonia in 406 BCE.