Bacchae In America
-by Dorothy ReikLast night I went to see Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae. As is almost always the case you can take Greek tragedy, written around 200 BC, and apply it directly to today.As Euripides tells it, Dionysus returns to his hometown of Thebes to get revenge for the disrespect shown him by its young king, Pentheus, who denies that Dionysus is the son of the god Zeus. Sound familiar already? He leads the women of the town in
