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This book offers the first English commentary on Euripides’ play Bacchae since that of E. R. Dodds (1960). It takes account of studies made on the play since then, as well as discussing recent scholarship and new research into the cult of Dionysus. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary. Bibliography updated in 2015.

Table of Contents

General Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction to Bacchae:
I: Tradition and Structure
II: The Bacchae and the Dionysiac
III: The Bacchae and Cult
IV: The Bacchae and the Polis
V: The Transmission of the Bacchae
Manuscripts
Apparatus Criticus
Text and Translation of Bacchae
Selected Text from Christus Patiens
Commentary
General Bibliography
Selected Bibliography for Bacchae
Index

Bacchae Classical Texts Aris Phillips Classical

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: 3/18/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780856686092, 978-0856686092
      ISBN10: 0856686093
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book offers the first English commentary on Euripides’ play Bacchae since that of E. R. Dodds (1960). It takes account of studies made on the play since then, as well as discussing recent scholarship and new research into the cult of Dionysus. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary. Bibliography updated in 2015.

      Table of Contents

      General Editor’s Foreword
      Preface
      Abbreviations
      Introduction to Bacchae:
      I: Tradition and Structure
      II: The Bacchae and the Dionysiac
      III: The Bacchae and Cult
      IV: The Bacchae and the Polis
      V: The Transmission of the Bacchae
      Manuscripts
      Apparatus Criticus
      Text and Translation of Bacchae
      Selected Text from Christus Patiens
      Commentary
      General Bibliography
      Selected Bibliography for Bacchae
      Index

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