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Euripides — The Bacchae

Study guide to Euripides's Bacchae (staged posthumously c. 405 BCE): the god Dionysus comes to Thebes in disguise, is refused by its young king Pentheus, and leads him step by step into the mountain rites he banned, where Pentheus is torn apart by the women of his own family.

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