Bacchae

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At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

This version of Euripides' Bacchae is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael.