* 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.

* In 2007, David Greig wrote an adaptation of The Bacchae for the National Theatre of Scotland starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus, with ten soul-singing followers in place of the traditional Greek chorus.

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.

The Erpingham Camp, Orton's take on The Bacchae, written through mid-1965 and offered to Rediffusion in October of that year, was broadcast on 27 June 1966 as the ' pride ' segment in their series Seven Deadly Sins.

The men, as though seized with madness and with frenzied distortions of their bodies, shrieked out prophecies ; the matrons, dressed as Bacchae, their hair disheveled, rushed down to the Tiber River with burning torches, plunged them into the water, and drew them out again, the flame undiminished because they were made of sulfur mixed with lime.

Euripedes, conversely, used plays to challenge societal norms and mores — a hallmark of much of Western literature for the next 2, 300 years and beyond — and his works such as Medea, The Bacchae and The Trojan Women are still notable for their ability to challenge our perceptions of propriety, gender, and war.

Word arrives via a herdsman that the Bacchae on Cithaeron are behaving especially strangely and performing incredible feats, putting snakes in their hair in reverie of their god, suckling wild wolves and gazelle, and making wine, milk, honey and water spring up from the ground.

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.

Euripedes, conversely, used plays to challenge societal norms and mores — a hallmark of much of Western literature for the next 2, 300 years and beyond — and his works such as Medea, The Bacchae and The Trojan Women are still notable for their ability to challenge our perceptions of propriety, gender, and war.

* a final period of tragic despair ( Orestes, Phoenician Women, Bacchae )

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

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

Believed to have been composed in the wilds of Macedonia, Bacchae also happens to dramatize a primitive side to Greek religion and some modern scholars have therefore interpreted this particular play biographically as:

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.

* Joe Orton's play The Erpingham Camp ( television broadcast 27 June 1966 ; opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 6 June 1967 ) relocates The Bacchae to a British Butlin's-style holiday camp.

* Famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman directed the Bacchae three times: as an opera ( 1991 ) for the Royal Swedish Opera, as a TV-film ( 1993 ) for Sveriges Television and as a staged play ( 1996 ) for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

In Euripides's play, " The Bacchae ", Theban Maenads murdered King Pentheus after he banned the worship of Dionysus because he denied Dionysus's divinity.

The thyrsus is explicitly attributed to Dionysus in Euripides's play The Bacchae as part of the costume of the Dionysian cult.

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.

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.

Unique masks were also created for specific characters and events in a play, such as The Furies in Aeschylus ’ Eumenides and Pentheus and Cadmus in Euripides ’ The Bacchae.

Written between 408, after the Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides's death, the play was first produced the following year in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Alcmaeon in Corinth by his son or nephew, Euripides the Younger, and won the first place at the Athenian city Dionysia.

The scene in The Bacchae wherein Dionysus appears before King Pentheus on charges of claiming divinity is compared to the New Testament scene of Jesus being interrogated by Pontius Pilate.

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.

Another parallel has been drawn to how in the Bacchae Dionysus appears before King Pentheus on charges of claiming divinity and is compared to the New Testament scene of Jesus being interrogated by Pontius Pilate.

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.

The Bacchae re-enacts how Dionysus had come to be a god and in ancient Greek theatre, " role-playing is a well-known feature of ritual liminality.

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:

However, about 80 % of his plays have been lost and even the extant plays don't present a fully consistent picture of his ' spiritual ' development ( for example, Iphigenia at Aulis is dated with the ' despairing ' Bacchae, yet it contains elements that became typical of New Comedy ).

* Background and Images for the Bacchae

31, No. 2 ) is a setting for female voices and orchestra of the parodos from The Bacchae in the translation by Gilbert Murray.

Plays such as The Bacchae existed primarily for the purpose of religious practice and worship.

Other writers refer to a work entitled Bacchae, which may have been another name for the same work.

Dionysus in 69 ( 1968 ), based on Euripides ' The Bacchae, text by Schechner based on group improvisations ; Makbeth ( 1969 ), ( based on Shakespeare ), text devised by Schechner ; Commune ( 1970 ), a group devised work with the text arranged by Schechner and the company, which won Joan MacIntosh an OBIE for Distinguished Performance in 1970 ; The Tooth of Crime ( 1972 ) by Sam Shepard ; Mother Courage and Her Children ( 1975 ) by Bertolt Brecht ; The Marilyn Project ( 1975 ), by David Gaard ); Oedipus ( 1977 ) by Seneca ; Cops ( 1978 ) by Terry Curtis Fox ; The Survivor and the Translator ( 1978 ) performed and directed by Leeny Sack ; The Balcony ( 1979 ) by Jean Genet.

After the death of Crassus the Bacchae of Euripides was presented at Artavasdes ' court, with the head of Crassus himself allegedly being used as an accessory for a scene actually including a severed head, on the order of the king.

In the past ( on Earth ), she has damaged the Fantastic Four's headquarters, had romantic feelings for The Thing, was formally associated with The Bacchae, fought against Spider-Man, and interfered with a " gang " dispute between The Golden Horde and The Bacchae.

The Greeks and Romans had been literate societies, and much mythology was written down in the forms of epic poetry ( such as The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Argonautica ) and plays ( such as Euripides ' The Bacchae and Aristophones ' The Frogs ).

In his new palace at Pella ( where he moved the capital from the old capital at Aigai ), he hosted great poets, tragedians, including Agathon and Euripides ( who wrote his tragedies Archelaus and The Bacchae while in Macedon ), musicians, and painters, including Zeuxis ( the most celebrated painter of his time ).

In that repertory company he appeared in ' Tis Pity She's a Whore, Ruling the Roost, The Way of the World, The Wood Demon, The Bacchae, Tartuffe, King Lear and Knots ( based on the R. D. Laing book ).

" In line with Genet's interest in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy ( 1872 ), Rosen aligns the development of Irma's relationship to the audience with the mythic narrative of Dionysos toying with Pentheus in Euripides ' tragedy The Bacchae ( 405 BCE ).

Rhythms are also found preserved in Greek prose referring to the Dionysian rites ( such as Euripides ' Bacchae ).