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Bacchae
[bak-ee]
plural noun
the female attendants of Bacchus.
the priestesses of Bacchus.
the women who took part in the Bacchanalia.
Bacchae
/ ˲śĆ¦°ģ¾±Ė /
plural noun
the priestesses or female devotees of Bacchus
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of Bacchae1
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of Bacchae1
Example Sentences
While still set in 21st-century America, this one is based on Euripidesā āThe Bacchaeā ā well, the one he might have written as a brilliant, fiercely feminist provocateur.
Sossi started to push his creative limits with its first productions ā āA Manās a Manā by Bertolt Brecht, āThe Serpentā by Jean-Claude van Itallie, āThe Threepenny Operaā by Brecht and Kurt Weill and āThe Bacchaeā by Euripides.
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.
The scene stealing moment when he descended on wires from high in the theatre rafters in The Bacchae in 2007.
āThe Bacchaeā is very loosely based on Euripidesās ancient play, whose characters seem to have been transplanted into a postapocalyptic world.
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