by Eurípides · KRK Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483674789
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«Las Bacantes» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides, published by KRK Ediciones in paperback (112 pages, in Spanish).
Las Bacantes, the last work written by Euripides, revolves around the cult of Dionysus and the god's return to his city to impose it. Against traditional faith and sophistic rationalism, the tragedy shows the flight to the mountain, contact with nature and ecstasy as liberation, and pits the instinctive against the rational civic order.
Published in 2015, the volume belongs to the A Escena collection (no. 16) and includes translation, introduction and didactic guide by Rosa García Rodero.
For readers interested in classical tragedy, drama and mythology, with didactic materials to delve deeper into the work.
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.
