Skip to content

Bacchae

By&
Pages
134
Published
405 BCE
Language
English

Synopsis

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people. This version of Euripides' Bacchae is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (4)
ViolenceGraphic ViolenceTraumaDeath Of A Parent

Readers suggest