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Bacchae

[bak-ee]

plural noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. the female attendants of Bacchus.

  2. the priestesses of Bacchus.

  3. the women who took part in the Bacchanalia.



Bacchae

/ ˈ²śĆ¦°ģ¾±Ė /

plural noun

  1. the priestesses or female devotees of Bacchus

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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of Bacchae1

< Latin < Greek µžĆ”°ģ°ģ³ó²¹¾±, plural of µžĆ”°ģ°ģ³óŧ maenad
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of Bacchae1

Latin, from Greek Bakkhai , plural of µž²¹°ģ°ģ³óŧ priestess of Bacchus
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While still set in 21st-century America, this one is based on Euripides’ ā€œThe Bacchaeā€ — well, the one he might have written as a brilliant, fiercely feminist provocateur.

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Sossi started to push his creative limits with its first productions — ā€œA Man’s a Manā€ by Bertolt Brecht, ā€œThe Serpentā€ by Jean-Claude van Itallie, ā€œThe Threepenny Operaā€ by Brecht and Kurt Weill and ā€œThe Bacchaeā€ by Euripides.

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In the last decade, he's been here more and more, thanks to TV work such as hosting the Traitors American version and shows like Burn, Macbeth and The Bacchae with the National Theatre of Scotland.

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The scene stealing moment when he descended on wires from high in the theatre rafters in The Bacchae in 2007.

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ā€œThe Bacchaeā€ is very loosely based on Euripides’s ancient play, whose characters seem to have been transplanted into a postapocalyptic world.

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