Simon Goldhill, Reading Greek Tragedy (CambridgeĮdith Hall, Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the SunĮdith Hall, Fiona Macintosh and Amanda Wrigley (eds.), Dionysus Morwood), Bacchae and Other PlaysĮuripides (trans. Judith Affleck), Frogs (CambridgeĮuripides (trans. Lecturer in Classical History and Literature at the University of KentĮmily Wilson at the University of PennsylvaniaĪristophanes (trans. Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Professor of Classics at King’s College London This object can be found at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The image above is a detail of a Red-Figure Cup showing the death of Pentheus (exterior) and a Maenad (interior), painted c. All this happened because Pentheus had denied the divinity of his cousin Dionysus, known to the audience as god of wine, theatre, fertility and religious ecstasy. The action seen or described on stage was brutal: Pentheus, king of Thebes, is torn into pieces by his mother in a Bacchic frenzy and his grandparents condemned to crawl away as snakes. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides' great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and humiliation in a long war with Sparta.
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