The Bacchae of Euripides (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499612677)

The background represents the front of the Castle of Pentheus, King of Thebes. At one side is visible the sacred Tomb of Semel , a little enclosure overgrown with wild vines, with a cleft in the rocky floor of it from which there issues at times steam or smoke. The God Dionysus is discovered alone. Dionysus. Behold, God's Son is come unto this land Of Thebes, even I, Dionysus, whom the brand Of heaven's hot splendour lit to life, when she Who bore me, Cadmus' daughter Semel , Died here. So, changed in shape from God to man, I walk again by Dirce's streams and scan Ismenus' shore. There by the castle side I see her place, the Tomb of the Lightning's Bride, The wreck of smouldering chambers, and the great Faint wreaths of fire undying-as the hate Dies not, that Hera held for Semel . Aye, Cadmus hath done well; in purity He keeps this place apart, inviolate, His daughter's sanctuary; and I have set My green and clustered vines to robe it round. Far now behind me lies the golden ground Of Lydian and of Phrygian; far away The wide hot plains where Persian sunbeams play, The Bactrian war-holds, and the storm-oppressed Clime of the Mede, and Araby the Blest, And Asia all, that by the salt sea lies In proud embattled cities, motley-wise Of Hellene and Barbarian interwrought; And now I come to Hellas-having taught All the world else my dances and my rite Of mysteries, to show me in men's sight Manifest God.

Author: Euripides
ISBN-10: 1499612672
ISBN-13: 9781499612677
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2014
Pages: 46
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.10d