by Euripides · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140440447
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«The Bacchae and Other Plays» is a collection of four Greek tragedies by Euripides, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
This volume brings together four tragedies by Euripides: «Ion», «The Trojan Women», «Helen» and «The Bacchae». In them, Euripides explores faith and the human condition, denounces the horror of war, plays with the myth of Helen, and portrays collective violence and religious frenzy in The Bacchae.
Revised edition translated by Philip Vellacott; includes a general introduction, preface to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography and glossary.
For readers of classical theatre, Greek tragedy and mythology, with an interest in annotated Penguin Classics editions.
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.
