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"Using to the full the last half century's great accessions to the comparative study of religion, [Dodds] has given a coherent and convincing reconstruction of the Dionysiac background--and, indeed, foreground--of the play, illustrating it with many instructive non-Greek and modern parallels.... Equally instructive and stimulating is the acute analysis of the play's dramatic elements, its characters, scenes, conflicts, actions, speeches.... This edition far surpasses its predecessors in vitality, sympathy, and scope."--W.B. Stanford, Hermathena LXV. Including a comprehensive discussion of the play's background and an incisive assessment of its dramatic structure, this edition makes an outstanding contribution to Euripides scholarship.
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    978-0198721253
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    Clarendon Press
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    March 26, 1987
  6. Language
    English, Ancient Greek
  7. Dimensions
    5.25 x 1 x 7.75 inches
  8. Print length
    314 pages
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Euripides (c. 480-406 BCE) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. E. R. Dodds is at University of Oxford.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarendon Press; 2nd edition (March 26, 1987)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English, Ancient Greek
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 314 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198721250
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198721253
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1170L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1 x 7.75 inches
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    Euripides (/jʊəˈrɪpᵻdiːz/ or /jɔːˈrɪpᵻdiːz/; Greek: Εὐριπίδης; Ancient Greek: [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]) (c. 480 – 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but according to the Suda it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

    Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets",[nb 1] focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of...that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

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Jenny Elliott
5.0 out of 5 stars An essential play for Pagans
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2013
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This play is for those who are looking for a closer connection and information on the God Dionysus. The play describes how the Maenads worshiped the Great God of Wine, Ecstasy, and Wild Abandonment. I great price and a great read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars confidence
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2019
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very good treatment
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Allison Wilhite
4.0 out of 5 stars Modernized, but Helpful
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2006
This translation is more modernized, making for an easy read. The pages are set up with the translation on the right and explanations about concepts and themes on the left. The explanations are insightful and did benefit me. I would suggest this version for high school students or for leisure, but I suggest a more true to the text translation for higher education.
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Carolyn B. Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2016
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Excellent for close review before teaching the text in translation in a freshman course.
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MateoDLR
5.0 out of 5 stars perfect condition.
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016
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Lawrance Bernabo
5.0 out of 5 stars Foolish Pentheus does not welcome Dionysius to Thebes
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2003
"The Bacchae" was written by Euripides when he was living in Macedonia in virtual exile during the last years of his life. The tragedy was performed in Athens after his death. These factors are important in appreciate this particular Greek tragedy because such plays were performed at a festival that honored the Dionysus, and in "The Bacchae" he is the god who extracts a horrible vengeance. The tragedy clearly demonstrates the god's power, but it is a terrible power, which suggests less than flattering things about the deity himself.
Pentheus was the son of Echion and Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, the founder of the Royal House of Thebes. After Cadmus stepped down the throne, Pentheus took his place as king of Thebes. When the cult of Dionysus came to Thebes, Pentheus resisted the worship of the god in his kingdom. However, his mother and sisters were devotees of the god and went with women of the city to join in the Dionsysian revels on Mount Cithaeron. Pentheus had Dionysus captured, but the god drove the king insane, who then shackled a bull instead of the god. When Pentheus climbed a tree to witness in secret the reverly of the Bacchic women, he was discovered and torn to pieces by his mother and sisters, who, in their Bacchic frenzy, believed him to be a wild beast. The horrific action is described in gory detail by a messenger, which is followed by the arrival of the frenzied and bloody Agave, the head of her son fixed atop her thytsus.
Unlike those stories of classical mythology which are at least mentioned in the writings of Homer, the story of Pentheus originates with Euripides. The other references in classical writing, the "Idylls" written by the Syracusean poet Theocritus and the "Metamorphoses" of the Latin poet Ovid, both post-date"The Bacchae" by centuries. On those grounds, the tragedy of Euripides would appear to be entirely his construct, which would certainly give it an inherent uniqueness over his interpretations of the stories of "Medea," "Electra," and "The Trojan Women."
I see "The Bacchae" as being Euripides' severest indictment of religion and not as the recantation of his earlier rationalism in his old age. The dramatic conflicts of the play stem from religious issues, and without understanding the opposition on Appollonian grounds of Pentheus to the new cult readers miss the ultimate significance of the tragedy. This is not an indictment of Appollonian rationalism, but rather a dramatic argument that, essentially, it is irrational to ignore the irrational. As the fate of Pentheus amply points out, it is not only stupid to do so, it is fatal.
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bukhtan
5.0 out of 5 stars A note for a five-star book, Bacchae edited by E. R. Dodds
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2007
I doubt anyone will go so far as to shell out $65.00 and find out the hard way, but this spectacular book:

1986 2nd ed.
English Book lix, 253 p. ; 19 cm.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press.
ISBN: 0198721250 (pbk.) 9780198721253 (pbk.)

contains in fact the Greek text, with apparatus, accompanied by this great scholar's introduction and line by line commentary. I have never seen a better commentary on a Greek tragedy, and in fact the work may be of some value to Greekless readers, but it is NOT the translation referred to by the other reviewers at this site.
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Artemesia
1.0 out of 5 stars No Greek text
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2009
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This review refers to the paperback Bryn Mawr commentary of Euripides' Bacchae by Beth Causey copyright 1995 ISBN 0-929524-85-3.

Usually, Bryn Mawr commentaries come with the Greek text. The information on Amazon says that the book is 28 pages. In fact the book I received was 21 pages and is only a commentary - it is missing the Greek text.

The poor rating in this review does not refer to the quality of commentary by Beth Causey but the fact that I expect commentaries to have a copy of the Greek text, and I expect books I order to be the same number of pages as stated in the information on Amazon.

Several of the reviews here seem to be of a different book altogether since they refer to an English translation of the text. I have never heard of a Bryn Mawr commentary that gave an English translation of the text.
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Marta Mussi
5.0 out of 5 stars For teachers and students
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2020
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Lots of useful notes and questions for class discussion.
Could also be used to put together a stage production. The translation reads very well.
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Jakob Hobbs
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2020
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J.K. Currie
4.0 out of 5 stars 'Let us dance to the Bacchic god!'
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2017
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This edition follows the same pattern as others in the series: introduction to Greek (Athenian) Drama and to the myth behind the play, translation with running commentary and questions designed to promote thought and discussion, followed by summary of the play and suggestions for further reading. I like the format and the series is very useful for Sixth Form or university students of Greek literature in translation or drama. With its references to gender swapping, its focus on the irrational, its implicit criticism of censorship, its lurid violence, the Bacchae remains a Greek play to excite the contemporary imagination. This is an excellent study guide.
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Ania
5.0 out of 5 stars Reasonably priced and with a brief but useful introduction and helpful glossary
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2014
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An accessible translation of an important play. Reasonably priced and with a brief but useful introduction and helpful glossary.
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