Description
"Dionysus, son of Zeus, has journeyed to the land of his birth expecting to be received as a god. After being rejected by his kin, he drives the women of Thebes into a delirious frenzy. Dressed in skins and crowned with leaves, they roam the hills as the king tries to restore order-with horrifying results. Written in the final years of Euripides' life and first staged posthumously, The Bacchae is presented here in William Arrowsmith's energetic translation, drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press's Complete Greek Tragedies series. An introduction by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most provides essential information about The Bacchae's first production, plot, and reception in antiquity, and an appendix presents Arrowsmith's hypothetical reconstruction of fifty lines missing from the denouement of the play"--
