Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams presents this fluent and
accessible version of the Athenian playwright Euripides's great
tragedy.
Based on the Greek myth of the god Dionysus's punishment of King
Pentheus and his mother Agave, Williams' The Bacchae of Euripides is a
unique interpretation of one of the most celebrated plays in the history
of dramatic theater.
With an Introduction by Martha Nussbaum, award-winning author of The
Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy