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The Bacchae and Other Plays

Penguin paperback of Euripides's The Bacchae and Other Plays

Euripides; translated by Philip Vellacott
Twenty-fourth printing. 8vo. 249pp. Pictorial wraps. Includes Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen and The Bacchae, in a translation originally published in 1954 and reissued here with a revised text and a new introduction. Features individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary.
Euripides (c.484 – 406 B.C.) is considered to be the most modern of the great Greek tragedians. Ion is concerned with the problem of reconciling religious faith with the facts of human existence, whilst The Women of Troy is a denunciation of the ruthlessness of war. In Helen Euripides good-humouredly parodies himself, and finally in his last extant play and masterpiece, The Bacchae, he deals with mob violence and mass hysteria.
format
mass-market paperback
publisher
Penguin Books
published in
London
publication year
1973
ISBN
0140440445
pagination
249 pages
genre
plays & screenplays
language
English
binding state
original binding
condition
fine
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