ISBN 9780195125986 | 0195125983 Textbooks - "Bakkhai Greek Tragedy in New Translations" by Charles Segal Euripides Reginald Gibbons Euripides TranslatorReginald Gibbons IntroductionCharles Segal

Authors: Charles Segal - Euripides - Reginald Gibbons - Euripides; Translator-Reginald Gibbons; Int…
ISBN 10: 0195125983
ISBN 13: 9780195125986
Release: February 22, 2001
Format: Paperback (160 pages)
List Price: $30.00
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, Drama, Greek & Roman,

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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.

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Bakkhai (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)