The Bacchae

A stand-alone edition of Euripides’s The Bacchae taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek tragedies. Dionysus, son of Zeus, has journeyed to the land of his birth expecting to be received as a god. After being rejected by his kin, he turns to the women of Thebes, driving them into a delirious frenzy. Dressed in animal skins and crowned with leaves, they roam wild in the hills as the king tries to restore order—with horrifying results. Written in the final years of Euripides’s