Bacchae

Drama Classics: The World''s Great Plays at a Great Little PriceAt the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.This version of Euripides'' Bacchae is translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael.