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The Bacchae (/ ˈ b æ k iː /; Ancient Greek: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes / ˈ b æ k ə n t s, b ə ˈ k æ n t s,-ˈ k ɑː n t s /) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.
Euripides [a] (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens.Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full.
Pages in category "Plays by Euripides" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alcestis (play)
These include the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Roman adaptations of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. In total, there are eighty-three mostly extant plays, forty-six from ancient Greece and thirty-seven from ancient Rome. Furthermore, there are six lost plays with extensive ...
The book established a whole new genre of so-called "Milesian tales," of which The Golden Ass by the later Roman writer Apuleius is a prime example. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] The ancient Greek novels Chaereas and Callirhoe [ 91 ] by Chariton and Metiochus and Parthenope [ 92 ] [ 93 ] were probably both written during the late first century BC or early ...
According to the Suda, Euripides wrote either 75 or 92 plays, of which survive eighteen tragedies and the only complete surviving satyr play, the Cyclops. [38] His extant works are: [39] Alcestis (Ἄλκηστις / Alkestis), 438 BC; Medea (Μήδεια / Medeia), 431 BC; Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι / Herakleìdai), c. 430 BC;
Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year [2] in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Alcmaeon in Corinth by his son or nephew, Euripides the Younger, [3] and won first place at the City Dionysia in Athens. [2]
Cyclops (Ancient Greek: Κύκλωψ, Kyklōps) is an ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, based closely on an episode from the Odyssey. [1] It is likely to have been the fourth part of a tetralogy presented by Euripides in a dramatic festival in 5th Century BC Athens, although its intended and actual performance contexts are unknown. [2]