by Eurípides · Clásicas. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478826087
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«Las Bacantes» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides, published by Ediciones Clásicas in paperback (63 pages, in Spanish).
The play shows Dionysus's return to his city, where he tries to impose his cult and take revenge on those who reject his divinity. Euripides pits reason against religious fervor, civic order against the ecstasy of the bacchants, in a tragedy that leads to a violent and irreversible outcome.
Edition with introduction, translation and notes by Alfonso Martínez Díez. The play was probably first performed in 405 BC and was staged by Euripides's youngest son.
For students of classical literature and readers interested in Greek theater and mythology.
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.
