Why Is The Bacchae Important

Ancient Greek was a shining star in the long history, it did not only have referential experiences of democracy system, it also had extremely outstanding plays and play writers. Euripides was one of these outstanding writers, at the same time, he was considered one of the most prominent dramatists and dramatic innovators. Euripides composed nighty plays in his entirely life, but now there were eighteen of them survived; however, because of his amount of plays were more than the combination of the other two prominent dramatists, so he won the first prize. The reason he was important was because he explored the dark side of the human nature and the dark side of Athenian life, which can be said that he outspoken the indignities suffered by those whom Athenian society exploited or overlooked like women or criminals. However his action or words, he made himself in trouble, Athens were afraid that his beliefs would influence the citizens in Athens to against the soviet, so he later was be forced to leave Athens. The work named The Bacchae was written during his final years, exactly at 405 BCE, in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon, and later was brought back to Athens by Euripides’ son, the play was be considered as the fifth first greatest playwright. The Bacchae was a troubling play
This whole story was started as the respect of Gods, Dionysus was the son of Zeus and God of Wine; meanwhile, he was the relative of Pentheus, a king of a country, but Pentheus and his family refused to recognize Dionysus was the son of Zeus and said it was the lie of his mother. In order to pretty his mother’s repetition and Dionysus’ own divinity, he drove the sisters of his mother or the aunts and mother of Pentheus to be frenzy, even though, Pentheus still refused to respect Dionysus, so Dionysus used his power and ticks to let Pentheus’ family to kill him at the