'THE BACCHAE': MELVYN BRAGG AND BBC RADIO4 'IN OUR TIME' GUESTS DISCUSS EURIPIDES' GREAT TRAGEDY
The Bacchae Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides' great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and humiliation in a long war with Sparta. The action seen or described on stage was brutal: Pentheus, king of Thebes, is torn […]