Verse play · c. 405 BC
The Bacchae
Translated by Gilbert Murray (1902)
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The god Dionysus comes in human guise to Thebes, where the young king Pentheus denies his divinity, imprisons the stranger and tries to suppress the rites of the maenads. The god drives the Theban women to the mountain, lures Pentheus to spy on them in woman's dress, and brings about a terrible end at the hands of his own mother Agave. Gilbert Murray renders the tragedy in rhymed English verse, with the choral odes in lyric measures.
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