Βάκχαι
The Bacchae
Author
Language
Year
405 BCE
Country
Classical Athens
Genre
Drama / Theatre / Plays
graeco-roman
epics
tragedies
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 →
