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The Bacchae is definitely an amazing book. I think is an obvious fight of gods and humans in the sense of power, faith and love. The principal idea for me do not develop in the party itself, but in the power struggles that Dionisio creates with Penteo, this fight is very interesting because we usually do not see gods taking part of this kind of problems. Humans are whom fight and gods are whom see and take part of one or other part but in this play is Dionisio himself who is taking part of all t...
Mills writes with an open, nonjudgmental perspective that acknowledges all arguments. She had toys control and used it as a tool to expand on different parts of the play that allowed the reader to understand the play, characters and background. I've never read Bacchae and now I want to so badly. Her analysis is filled with knowledge, thoroughly supported with sources and quotations. Very detailed and I love how she ended with different recreated interpretations of Bacchae in modern culture.
A good introduction to Euripides's Bakkhai.