num_pages: 270
description: Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Plays for Performance Series.
language: English
title: Euripides: Bacchae
titlecomplete: Euripides: Bacchae (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)
characters: Agave, Cadmus (mythology), Tiresias, Pentheus, Dionysus (mythology)
genres: Mythology, Theatre, Tragedy, School, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 20919
places: Thebes
publisher: Liverpool University Press