Euripides: Bacchae

Richard Seaford is Professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, and has published widely on both the Bacchae and the Dionysus cult. His books include Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State (Oxford University Press,1994), Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Dionysos (Routledge, 2006), and Cosmology and the Polis: the Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

• General Editor’s ForewordPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction to Bacchae:I: Tradition and StructureII: The Bacchae and the DionysiacIII: The Bacchae and CultIV: The Bacchae and the PolisV: The Transmission of the BacchaeManuscriptsApparatus CriticusText and Translation of BacchaeSelected Text from Christus PatiensCommentaryGeneral BibliographySelected Bibliography for BacchaeIndex