by Euripide · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804459316
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«Baccanti. Testo greco a fronte» is the tragedy by Euripides, published by Mondadori in paperback (210 pages, in Italian and Greek).
The work, written towards the end of Euripides' life, narrates the return of the god Dionysus to Thebes, where his divinity is denied. The god's vengeance unleashes a ritual frenzy that confronts reason with the instinctive and ends with the social order of the city.
Edited and annotated by Giorgio Ieranò, in the Oscar classici greci e latini collection (no. 119). The original Greek title is Βάκχαι.
For readers of classical theatre and Greek tragedy, and for those interested in mythology and drama as cultural expression.
Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, 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.
