num_pages: 144
description: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams presents this fluent and accessible version of the Athenian playwright Euripides's great tragedy.Based on the Greek myth of the god Dionysus's punishment of King Pentheus and his mother Agave, Williams' The Bacchae of Euripides is a unique interpretation of one of the most celebrated plays in the history of dramatic theater.With an Introduction by Martha Nussbaum, award-winning author of The Fragility of Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
language: English
title: The Bacchae
titlecomplete: The Bacchae
characters: Agave, Cadmus (mythology), Tiresias, Pentheus, Dionysus (mythology)
genres: Mythology, Theatre, Tragedy, School, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 20921
places: Thebes
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux