Bacchae Euripides (ca. 408–406 b.C.E.) Eu-
ripides’ Bacchae turned into produced posthumously in 405 b.C.E. As a part of a sad tetralogy that blanketed the Iphigenia at Aulis. The play is set in Thebes, a metropolis of unique significance to Athenian tragedy. Oedipus’s tragic downfall occurred at Thebes, as did the struggle among his sons Polynices and Eteocles. Finally, in Sophocles’ Antigone, Thebes offers the putting for the loss of life of Oedipus’s daughter and destruction of Creon’s own family. Euripides’ Bacchae lines the darkish mythological inheritance of Thebes again to an in advance segment, when Pentheus regulations Thebes and tries to repress the worship of Dionysus.
The god punishes Pentheus through deranging his mind: He attire up as a lady in an effort to secret agent on
