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.

* 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.

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.

Milman also wrote " When our-heads are bowed with woe ," and other hymns ; an admirable version of the Sanskrit episode of Nala and Damayanti ; and translations of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Bacchae of Euripides.

* The Bacchae ( / Bàkchai ') of 406 BC ;

From Euripides, the Hippolytus and The Bacchae ( together with The Frogs of Aristophanes ; first edition, 1902 ); the Medea, Trojan Women, and Electra ( 1905 – 1907 ); Iphigenia in Tauris ( 1910 ); The Rhesus ( 1913 ) were presented at the Court Theatre, in London.

* Euripides: Hippolytus ; The Bacchae ( 1902 )

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.

* Euripides, The Bacchae ( Acts 12 ; 26: 14 )

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:

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 ):

The maenads were also known as Bassarids ( or Bacchae or Bacchantes ) in Roman mythology, after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a fox-skin, a bassaris.

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.

The influence of Euripides ' Bacchae is also significant, as is probably the influence of the other tragedians whose Dionysiac plays do not survive.

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

Williams is also an acclaimed translator, notably of Sophocles ’ Women of Trachis and Euripides ’ The Bacchae, as well as of the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski and the French poet Francis Ponge.

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

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 ).

" The tension between reason and passion is symbolized by his character's relationship with the gods, as in Hecuba's prayer, answered not by Zeus, nor by the Law of Reason, but by brutal Menelaus as if speaking on behalf of the old gods, and most famously in Bacchae, where the god Dionysus savages his own converts.

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

The Bacchae however shows a reversion to old forms, possibly as a deliberate archaic effect or maybe because there were no virtuoso choristers in Macedonia, where it is said to have been written.

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 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.

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

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.

" The Bacchae is a tribute to Dionysus and it is written in a way that favours him.

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

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.

He is a composer of often folk-inspired pop, as well as theatre scores ( Romeo and Juliet, Elvise de luxe, Lemonade, Mother Courage ), The Bacchae, documentary and feature film scores.

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.

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

In addition to Euripedes ' The Bacchae, depictions of maenads are often found on both red and black figure Greek pottery, statues and jewellery.

* 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 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 ).

* The Bacchae 2. 1, a theatrical adaptation set in modern times, was written by Charles Mee and first performed in 1993.

* In May 2008, BBC Radio 7 broadcast Dionysos, a ninety-minute drama based on The Bacchae written by Andrew Rissik and starring Paul Scofield as " Cadmus " and Diana Rigg as " Agave ".

This performance of The Bacchae was a different version by Mike Poulton.

* In March 2011 a liberal adaption of The Bacchae, written by Aaron Caleb, was performed by Trinity Western University's School of the Arts, Media and Culture.

* Another opera based on The Bacchae, called The Bassarids, was composed in 1965 by Hans Werner Henze.

In Summer 2009, the Public Theater ( of New York City ) produced a version of The Bacchae ' with music by Philip Glass.

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 Euripedes ' The Bacchae, according to the translation by Philip Vellacott, the Bacchants call to dance, crying out in unison on the son of Zeus, " Iacchus!

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.

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.

** Hippolytus and The Bacchae, by Euripides

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.