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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.
The play is probably an adaptation of the play Δὶς Ἐξαπατῶν (Dis Exapaton), meaning Twice Deceiving or The Double Deceiver, by the Greek playwright Menander. [1] The beginning of it is lost, but the outline of the missing scenes can be partly reconstructed from twenty surviving fragments. [2]
The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).
The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. Prominently displayed in the center panel, the Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne depicts a both riotous and classically restrained procession which ferries Bacchus and Ariadne to their lovers' bed. Here, the underlying myth is that Bacchus, the god of wine, had gained the love of the abandoned princess, Ariadne.
The book is a prose recounting of myths and stories from three eras: Greek and Roman mythology, King Arthur legends and medieval romances. [6] Bulfinch intersperses the stories with his own commentary, and with quotations from writings by his contemporaries that refer to the story under discussion. [6]
Acoetes alone was saved and continued on his journey with Bacchus, [3] returning to Naxos, where he was initiated in the Bacchic mysteries and became a priest of the god. [4] In Ovid's Pentheus and Bacchus, Acoetes was brought before the King to determine if Bacchus was truly a god. After listening to Acoetes tale of being on the ship with ...
Dionysus (Bacchus): The god of wine and pleasure, symbolises the fortune that suddenly disappears from Anthony (protagonist) which leads to his inevitable downfall. [ 4 ] Exquisite sounds: The triumphant noises heard throughout the city are a sign of the beautiful moments, the successes of life that are commemorated at the end of someone's life.
Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Λουκιανός; Lucian of Samosata Project – Articles, timeline, maps, library/texts, and themes; Works by Lucian of Samosata at Project Gutenberg; Works of Lucian of Samostata at sacred-texts.com; Loeb Classical Library, volume three of Lucian's works with facing Greek text.