The Bacchae

by Euripides · c. 405 BCE

The Bacchae of Euripides, Project Gutenberg edition. 1 part, about 13,535 words, 62 minutes of reading. Source edition.

The Bacchae13,535 words

Passages the guide marks

Dionysus opens the play by naming himself, saying he has come to Thebes disguised as a man because his mother's sisters denied that Zeus fathered him and called her death a punishment for a lie.
Prologue, lines 1 to 63
Tiresias tells Pentheus that the new god gives wine, which relieves men of pain and gives them sleep, and that a city gains nothing by fighting a power it cannot see.
First episode, lines 266 to 327
The herdsman reports the women on the mountain waking at dawn, ordered and calm, with milk and honey flowing from the ground, until the men try to seize them and the same women tear cattle apart.
Messenger speech, lines 677 to 774
Agave enters carrying her trophy and calls on the city to admire her hunting, then asks where Pentheus is, and her father makes her look again at what she is holding.
Exodos, lines 1168 to 1300

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