by Euripides · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788468844510
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«Las Bacantes» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides, in paperback, with 82 pages in Spanish.
Dionysus arrives in Thebes in human form to punish Pentheus, who denies his divinity. Persuaded by the god, the king spies on the maenads, possessed by Dionysus on the mountain, disguised as a woman. His mother, Agave, kills him believing him to be a wild beast. The tragedy addresses irrationality and the power of the divine.
Edition published in 2003, with introduction, study guide and translation by Rosa García Rodero. Original Greek title: «Βάκχαι».
A classic of Greek theatre recommended for literature students and readers interested in mythology and classical tragedy.
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.
