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 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.
P.E. Easterling's new Introduction sets the book in its original context and evaluates its reading of theBacchaein light of more recent work on Greek religion and drama.
R.P. Winnington-Ingramwas Professor of Greek Language and Literature at King's College, University of London, UK, and an authority on ancient Greek music, as well as being a distinguished interpreter of tragedy.
Foreword
Bibliographical Note
Preface
Chapter I. Introductory
CONTENTS
II. Euripides and Dionysus (r)
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
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