Translations[edit]
- Theodore Alois Buckley, 1850: prose: full text
- Henry Hart Milman, 1865: verse
- Edward P. Coleridge, 1891: prose: full text
- Gilbert Murray, 1911: verse: full text
- Arthur S. Way, 1912: verse
- D. W. Lucas, 1930: prose
- Philip Vellacott, 1954: prose and verse
- Henry Birkhead, 1957: verse
- William Arrowsmith, 1958: verse
- Moses Hadas and John McLean, 1960: prose
- Geoffrey Kirk, 1970: prose and verse
- Robert Bagg, 1978: verse (as The Bakkhai)
- Michael Cacoyannis, 1982: verse
- Matt Neuberg, 1988: verse: full text as PDF
- Arthur Evans, 1988, prose and verse, as The God of Ecstasy (St. Martin's Press)
- Nicholas Rudall, 1996
- Richard Seaford, 1996: prose
- Daniel Mark Epstein, 1998;verse
- Paul Woodruff, 1999: verse
- Reginald Gibbons, 2000: verse ISBN 0-19-512598-3
- David Franklin, 2000: prose[41]
- Ian Johnston, 2003: verse: full text
- Colin Teevan, 2003,: verse (as "Bacchai")
- George Theodoridis, 2005: prose: full text
- Michael Valerie, 2005: verse: full text
- Michael Scanlan, 2006: verse (La Salle Academy: Providence, RI)
- Graham Kirby, 2009: verse (The Scoop)
- Che Walker, 2013: play with songs as The Lightning Child
- Robin Robertson, 2014: verse
- Anne Carson, 2015: verse (as The Bakkhai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjMJbn3PIs#t=37
| The Bacchae | |
|---|---|
 Pentheus being torn apart by Agave and Ino, Attic red-figure vase. | |
| Written by | Euripides |
| Chorus | Bacchae, female followers of Dionysus |
| Characters | Dionysus Tiresias Cadmus Pentheus Servant Messenger Second Messenger Agave |
| Date premiered | 405 BC |
| Place premiered | Athens |
| Original language | Ancient Greek |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Setting | Thebes |
The Bacchae (/ˈbækiː/; Greek: Βάκχαι, Bakchai; also known as The Bacchantes /ˈbækənts, bəˈkænts, -ˈkɑːnts/) is an ancient Greektragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis andAlcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides' son or nephew probably directed.[1] It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition.