by Eurípides · Ediciones Clásicas, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478821792
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«Las Bacantes» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides, published by Clásicas Ediciones in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
A tragedy on a mythological theme that Euripides composed at the end of his life, alongside Iphigenia in Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth. In it, the fate of King Pentheus, the ritual world of the maenads, and the figure of his mother, Agave, intersect in a conflict with tragic overtones.
Work probably performed around 405 BC, staged by Euripides' youngest son. Edition published in 1995.
For students of classical literature and theatre, and for those who want to learn about Greek tragedies.
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.
