Euripides and Dionysus: An Interpretation

United Kingdom: Duckworth Pub. New. 2003. 185399524X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED - 204 pages -- Euripides and Dionysus is a brilliant and influential study of the god of Greek drama and the one surviving tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae, in which he appears. The play has been intensively discussed by critics and very often staged, imitated and adapted in the fifty years since Winnington-Ingram wrote this pioneering monograph, which is still cited as if it were a contemporary work of criticism. His interpretation, presented with great elegance, was composed at a time (just before the Second World War) when he was deeply troubled by what he had seen of fascism; it has special interest now for its place in the history of reception. Easterling's new Introduction sets the book in its original context and evaluates its reading of the Bacchae in light of more recent work on Greek religion and drama. -- TOC: Bibliographical Note * Preface * I. Introductory * II. Euripides and Dionysus (1) * III. Introduction to Bacchanals * IV. Three Men * V. The Peace of the Bacchanals * VI. The God and the King * VII. Bacchanals upon the Mountain * VIII. The Hunt * IX. The Kill * X. A Bacchanal Wakes * XI. Euripides and Dionysus (2) * XII. Euripides and Dionysus (3) * Appendix: euripides the Rationalist * Select Index -- with a bonus offer-- .