Βάκχαι

The Bacchae

AuthorEuripides

LanguageClassical Attic Greek

Year405 BCE

CountryClassical Athens

GenreDrama / Theatre / Plays

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The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides' son or nephew is assumed to have directed. It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition.— Wikipedia