Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-4rdpn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-13T02:43:59.363Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Euripides and the Puritan Movement: A Study of ‘The Bacchae’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

L. M. Mead
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

TheBacchae is acknowledged to be the most difficult to interpret of all Euripides' plays, and the difficulty of understanding it is increased by the fact that it is in many ways unlike his other works. The human characters are not so clearly drawn, nor are they of such heroic calibre. The manifestation of Dionysus' power and the adoration of him at the end are, moreover, in contrast to Euripides' usual ‘sceptical’ tone.

Type
Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 10 , Issue 28 , October 1940 , pp. 22 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1940

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 The context points to κατέχω having here the sense merely of holding, not of restraint.