There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

Some historians believe that Acts borrows phraseology and plot elements from Euripides ' play The Bacchae.

The film records The Performance Group's performance of Euripides ’ The Bacchae, starring, amongst others, De Palma regular William Finley.

P contains all the extant plays of Euripides, L is missing The Trojan Women and latter part of The Bacchae.

Both kings were enjoying a performance of Euripides ' Greek tragedy The Bacchae and a certain actor of the royal court, named Jason of Tralles, took the head and sang the following verses ( also from the Bacchae ):

* Euripides, Bacchae, a Greek tragedy, gives some insight as to what was involved in a Bacchanalian rite.

In Euripides ' The Bacchae, Cadmus is given a prophecy by Dionysus whereby both he and his wife will be turned into snakes for a period before eventually being brought to live among the blest.

In Euripides ' play The Bacchae, Theban maenads murdered King Pentheus after he banned the worship of Dionysus.

Maenads have been depicted in art as erratic and frenzied women enveloped in a drunken rapture, the most obvious example being that of Euripides ’ play The Bacchae.

The Bacchae (, Bakchai ; also known as The Bacchantes ) is an ancient Greek tragedy by the Athenian playwright Euripides, during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedonia.

* Wole Soyinka adapted the play as The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite with the British Royal National Theatre in London in 1973, incorporating a second chorus of slaves to mirror the civil unrest in his native Nigeria.

Ramona Reeves and Lynn Odell ( as Agave ) in director Brad Mays ' stage production of Euripides ' The Bacchae, 1997, Los Angeles.

* Ian Johnston, " An introductory note to Euripides ' Bacchae "

* Production Photos and information from Brad Mays ' 1997 Los Angeles production of Euripides ' The Bacchae.

Much of what is known about the character comes from Euripides ' tragic play, The Bacchae.

Euripides took up the tale in The Bacchae, explaining their madness in Dionysiac terms, as a result of their having initially resisted belief in the god's divinity.

In The Bacchae, by Euripides, Tiresias appears with Cadmus, the founder and first king of Thebes, to warn the current king Pentheus against denouncing Dionysus as a god.

In Euripides ' play, The Bacchae, she and her sisters were driven into a bacchic frenzy by the god Dionysus ( her nephew ) when Pentheus, the king of Thebes, refused to allow his worship in the city.

worked on the plays by Euripides, publishing in 1916 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis, in 1919 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis and Hippolytus, an adaptation of Hippolytus called Hippolytus Temporizes ( 1927 ), a translation of choruses from The Bacchae and Hecuba ( 1931 ), and Euripides ' Ion ( 1937 ) a loose translation of Ion.

Three of the world's greatest dramatists were Aeschylus, author of the Oresteia trilogy ; Sophocles, author of the Theban plays ; and Euripides, author of Medea, The Trojan Women, and The Bacchae.

Sebastian's dismemberment and consumption by the objects of his sexual desire recalls the Dionysian acts of sparagmos and omophagia, as in Euripides ' play The Bacchae.

In Aeschylus ' Agamemnon, the chorus comprises the elderly men of Argos, whereas in Euripides ' The Bacchae, they are a group of eastern bacchants, and in Sophocles ' Electra, the chorus is made up of the women of Argos.

* Euripides ' play Iphigeneia in Tauris is performed.

Palaemon appears for the first time in Euripides Iphigeneia in Tauris, where he is already the " guardian of ships ".

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 probably directed.

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

In Iphigeneia in Tauris, Euripides tells the tale somewhat differently.

Pylades played a major role in another of Euripides ' plays, Iphigeneia in Tauris.

Iphigenia in Aulis (, Iphigeneia en Aulidi ; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide ) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides.

Iphigenia in Tauris (, Iphigeneia en Taurois ) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC.

His versions of the Oedipus of Sophocles and of the Iphigeneia at Aulis of Euripides were rewarded by the Hungarian Academy, of which in 1838 he was elected honorary member.

* Iphigenia in Tauris ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1787 ) ( based on Iphigeneia in Tauris by Euripides )

By the time of Euripides, the islands were identified with the Echinades: in Euripedes ' Iphigeneia at Aulis ( 405 BCE ), the chorus of women from Chalcis have spied the Hellenes ' fleet and seen Eurytus who " led the Taphian warriors with the white oar-blades, the subjects of Meges, son of Phyleus, who had left the isles of the Echinades, where sailors cannot land.

Euripides ( in Iphigeneia at Aulis ) identifies the Echinades with the islands of Taphos ( Taphiae Insulae ).

The Tauric custom of human sacrifice inspired the Greek legends of Iphigeneia and Orestes, recounted in Iphigeneia in Tauris by the playwright Euripides.

Iphigenia in Tauris () is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις, Iphigeneia en Taurois, by Euripides.

After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.

The identity of the threesome is neatly underscored by a patriotic account of their roles during Greece's great victory over Persia at the Battle of SalamisAeschylus fought there, Sophocles was just old enough to celebrate the victory in a boys ' chorus and Euripides was born on the very day of the battle.

Such comic ' evidence ' suggests that Athenians admired Euripides even while they mistrusted his intellectualism, at least during the long war with Sparta.

The dialogue often contrasts so strongly with the mythical and heroic setting, it looks as if Euripides aimed at parody, as for example in The Trojan Women, where the heroine's rationalized prayer provokes comment from Menelaus:

They are self-conscious about speaking formally and their rhetoric is shown to be flawed, as if Euripides was exploring the problematical nature of language and communication: " For speech points in three different directions at once, to the speaker, to the person addressed, to the features in the world it describes, and each of these directions can be felt as skewed.

Aeschylus and Sophocles were innovative, but Euripides had arrived at a position in the " ever-changing genre " where he could move easily between tragic, comic, romantic and political effects, a versatility that appears in individual plays and also over the course of his career.

Aeschylus gained thirteen victories as a dramatist, Sophocles at least twenty, Euripides only four in his lifetime, and this has often been taken as an indication of the latter's unpopularity with his contemporaries, and yet a first place might not have been the main criterion for success in those times ( the system of selecting judges appears to have been flawed ) and merely being chosen to compete was in itself a mark of distinction.

In the seventeenth century, Racine expressed admiration for Sophocles but was more influenced by Euripides ( e. g. Iphigenia at Aulis and Hippolytus were the models for his plays Iphigénie and Phèdre ).

August Wilhelm's Vienna lectures on dramatic art and literature went through four editions between 1809 and 1846 and, in them, he opined that Euripides " not only destroyed the external order of tragedy but missed its entire meaning ," a view that came to influence Friedrich Nietzsche, who however seems not to have known the Euripidean plays at all well.

The plays of Euripides, like those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, were circulated in written form in the fifth century among literary members of the audience and performers at minor festivals, as aide-memoirs.

The mytheme of the Judgement of Paris naturally offered artists the opportunity to depict a sort of beauty contest, with three beautiful female nudes trying to appease a male judge, but the myth, at least since Euripides, rather concerns a choice among the gifts that each goddess embodies.

He goes on to quote Euripides at some length, writing in praise of wives.

Euripides started changing Greek myths at will, including those of the Trojan War.

* Euripides ' play Medea wins third prize at the Dionysia, the famous Athenian dramatic festival.

According to some versions of the legend, the hunting goddess Artemis replaced her at the very last moment with a deer on the altar, and took Iphigenia to Tauris ( See Iphigenia en Tauris by Euripides ).

a ) Menelaus resolved to kill Helen but Euripides tells us that, when he found her, her striking beauty prompted him to drop his sword and take her back to his ship “ to punish her at Sparta ”, as he claimed, but in reality she got away with it.

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

Euripides then leaves Athens in dissatisfaction and travels to the court of Archelaus I of Macedon at the King's invitation.

According to Alcestis by Euripides, Apollo killed the Cyclopes, in retaliation for Asclepius's murder at the hands of Zeus.

In the version put forth by Euripides in his play Helen, Hera fashioned a likeness of Helen ( eidolon, εἴδωλον ) out of clouds at Zeus ' request, Hermes took her to Egypt, and Helen never went to Troy, spending the entire war in Egypt.