The Bacchae
Βάκχαι
A classic of antiquity. First published 404 BC, written in Ancient Greek
The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides' son or nephew is assumed to have directed. It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition.
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Thomas Mann, AD 1912
Mann's novella has the shape of Euripides' play: a man of order and reason refuses Dionysus and is undone by him. Aschenbach's dream of a frenzied rite to 'the stranger god' comes straight from the Bacchae.
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