Bacchae
the female attendants of bacchus.
the priestesses of bacchus.
the women who took part in the bacch-n-lia.
historical examples
towards the end of his life he migrated to macedonia, where he wrote not the least splendid of his plays, the bacchae.
authors of greece t. w. lumb
the agamemnon, the oedipus, the bacchae are not to be explained wholly by them.
the legacy of greece various
we have in the bacchae—it seems to me impossible to deny it—a heartfelt glorification of “dionysus.”
euripedes and his age gilbert murray
the story ends with the representation of the “bacchae,” in parthia.
adventures among books andrew lang
in the bacchae almost every reader feels that there is something more than a story.
euripedes and his age gilbert murray
the head of pentheus is carried by one of the bacchae in that drama.
adventures among books andrew lang
again, such a play would involve a bewildering shift of sympathy, just as the bacchae does.
euripedes and his age gilbert murray
there never was a great play so steeped in tradition as the bacchae.
euripedes and his age gilbert murray
the beautiful side of this feeling is vividly conspicuous in the bacchae.
the bacchae of euripides euripedes
we should probably have a result something like the bacchae.
euripedes and his age gilbert murray
plural noun
the priestesses or female devotees of bacchus
n.
“female attendants of bacchus,” from greek bakkhai, plural of bakkhe, from bakkhos (see bacchus).
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