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The Bacchae
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The Bacchae
The Bacchae
(; ,
Bakchai
; also known as
The Bacchantes
) is an
ancient Greek
tragedy
, written by the
Athenian
playwright
Euripides
during his final years in
Macedonia
, at the court of
Archelaus I of Macedon
. It premiered posthumously at the
Theatre of Dionysus
in 405 BC as part of a
tetralogy
that also included
Iphigeneia at Aulis
and
Alcmaeon in Corinth
, and which Euripides' son or nephew probably directed. It won first prize in the
City Dionysia festival competition
.
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