Aris and Phillips Classical Texts Euripides: Bacchae, First Published in the United Kingdom in 1996. Reprinted in 2015 with Updated General Bibliography. ed. (Paperback)

from pandoragreen

I realize it's the nature of the source material, but I hate the fragmentary/piecemeal ending.

from Dreesie

This edition (available through my library through Overdrive) is not great. Character names are abbreviated, the translator is not named, and there are no notes (none--as in zero). So--I found it all a touch confusing. The edition did not let me link to vocabulary, and no notes explained the thyr...

from hrissliss

How many insane people can you count? It was written around the time that the empire was falling to the Hordes, and some have said that the actions of the play are representative of the empire's last days. Great play. (Though that partly depends on your translation.) Interesting to see the interp...

from TheDivineOomba

There is something about Ancient Greek Tragedy that keeps me reading. Maybe its how the stories are both human, and alien. The Bacchae especially so- this is one my of the best I've read so far. The dichotomy of civilized vs wild, belief and un-belief. The story is also incredibly sad, Pentheus i...

from est-lm

Bacchae is one of my favorite Greek tragedies. It is a hot mess of a family drama filled with deception, two kinds of blindness, a party in the woods, and good old-fashioned man killing. Dionysus (Bacchus to the Romans) seeks out to prove to his mortal family (his mother, Semele, was human) that ...