Tag Archives: Bacchae

Tourist Reenacts Euripides’s Bacchae

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2024

A female tourist in Florence was recently photographed humping a statue of Dionysus. Euripides would understand.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 11, 2024

A Florida County has pulled “Paradise Lost” from the shelves. It’s true that the work has “sexual content.”

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2022

Foucault uses Euripides to describe what the Greeks meant by “fearless speech.” Such speech is important is standing up to authoritarians today.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 20, 2022

The ancient myth about Athena and Poseidon, historian Snyder argues, captures what Ukraine needs today in its battle with Russia.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 6, 2019

If a play turns comic or tragic often depends how how the clash between law and desire is negotiated.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 28, 2018

Euripides’s “Bacchae” gives us good insights into Kavanaugh’s alcohol consumption and his relation with women.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 6, 2017

It’s possible to read “The Bacchae” as a critique of the autocrats who hijacked Athenian democracy and were running Athens into the ground.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 5, 2017

For years my Intro to Lit class has had a nature theme.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 19, 2017

The Emmys signaled that “Handmaid’s Tale” is as relevant as ever as America’s misogyny deepens. So is Euripides’s “The Bacchae.”