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Bakkhai: Euripides - Euripides, and Gibbons, Reginald, and Segal, Charles (Introduction by)
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Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in Greece from Asia proclaiming his godhood and preaching his orgiastic religion. He expects to be embraced in Thebes, but the ...

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Bakkhai: Euripides 2001, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195125986

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