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| Other authors / contributors: | Gibbons, Reginald.
Segal, Charles, 1936-2002.
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| ISBN: | 9780199725939
0199725934
0195125983
9780195125986
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 h.
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| Other form: | Print version: Euripides. Bacchae. English (Gibbons). Bakkhai. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 9780195125986
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