Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae /

In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from wh...

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Main Author: Segal, Charles, 1936-2002
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1982.
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