01178nam a2200193Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200190007610000150009524500800011025000290019026000420021930000110026152006190027265000100089165000270090165000210092870000350094920260930160059.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780140440447  223a882.01 EUR  aEuripides  4aThe Bacchae, And Other Plays.c/ Euripides ; Translated by Philip Vellacott  aPenguin Classics Reprint  aHarmondsworthb: Penguin Booksc,1973  a254 p.  aEuripides is the most modern of the great Greek tragedians, as the four plays in this volume demonstrate. Ion is concerned with the problem of reconciling religious faith with the facts of human life, whilst The Women of Troy is a plain denunciation of the ruthlessness of war. In Helen Euripides light-heartedly parodied himself, and finally, in his last and probably greatest tragedy, The Bacchae, he dealt with mob violence and mass hysteria.

In this second edition Philip Vellacott has entirely re-written the dialogue of The Bacchae and The Women of Troy in verse and has thoroughly revised his introduction.  aDrama  aDionysus (Greek Deity)  aGreek Mythology,  aPhilip Vellacott  (Translator)