Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the nimb...

Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen, in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the nim...

Euripides (480-406 BC) was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the Greek poets. He is certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times. Euripides was the son of Mnesarchus. The family owned property on the is...

THE BACCHAE (KING'S THEATER; 1,350 SEATS; [pounds sterling] 30 ($60) TOP) EDINBURGH, Scotland An Edinburgh Festival and National Theater of Scotland presentation in association with Lyric Hammersmith of a play in one act by Euripides in a new version by David...

Euripides' The Bacchae is strong meat, literally. Its dominant image is of dismemberment, animal and then human flesh seized alive and devoured in the furthest reach of frenzy available to human kind. Now The Library is a nice place, a cosy cup of...

In the Bacchae by Euripides, Pentheus resists Dionysus because of his adherence to the god Apollo.

Discussion of character of Pentheus in Euripides' The Bacchae

Discusses possible reasons for Pentheus's death in "Bacchae" by Euripides. Keywords: Greek, mythology