The Bacchae: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Bacchae by Euripides: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 2:14:42 running time and a link to listen.
The Bacchae, credited to Euripides, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Bacchae by Euripides. (Translated by Gilbert Murray.) Read in English by Tony Addison Euripides' Bacchae tells of Dionysus, the God, come to the city of Thebes, there to drive mad those who refuse participation in his ecstatic rites, sing and dance on the mountainside and worship him as God. A family tale as well as a sacrificial rite, in it Dionysus drives his own aunts mad and lures his cousin, Pentheus, cross-dressed as a woman, to a humiliating death at his own mother's hands. An extraordinarily beautiful, utterly terrifying tale. (Summary by Tony Addison)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Bacchae
- Author credits: Euripides
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 3
- Listed recording duration: 2:14:42
Catalogue topics
- greek mythology
- Sacrifice
- family drama
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter One — 56:56
- 02 - Chapter Two — 1:06:44
- 03 - Note on the Bacchae — 11:02
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