Hippolytus; The Bacchae

Download or read book Hippolytus; The Bacchae written by Euripides and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hippolytus; The Bacchae" by Euripides is a collection of two plays. Hippolytus is set in Troezen, a coastal town in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Theseus, the king of Athens, is serving a year's voluntary exile after having murdered a local king and his sons. His illegitimate son is Hippolytus, whose birth is the result of Theseus's rape of the Amazon Hippolyta. Hippolytus has been trained since childhood by the king of Troezen, Pittheus. While The Bacchae begins before the palace at Thebes, with Dionysus telling the story of his birth and his reasons for visiting the city. Dionysus explains he is the son of a mortal woman, Semele, and a god, Zeus. Some in Thebes, he notes, do not believe this story. In fact, Semele's sisters—Autonoe, Agave, and Ino—claim it is a lie intended to cover up the fact that Semele became pregnant by some mortal.