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Here the fruits of intensive and sustained scholarship are combined with a sophisticated awareness of current critical theory to offer a powerful reading of one of the greatest plays of the tradition... Segal offers an exemplary instance of the fusion of traditional scholarship and current critical practice. -- Cyrus Hamlin, Recherches Semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry Well-written and well-documented, based on extensive reading and intensive study, [the book] reveals the Bacchae as a much more beautiful, more interesting, and more important play than has thus far been realized. -- W. J. Verdenius, Mnemosyne

Here the fruits of intensive and sustained scholarship are combined with a sophisticated awareness of current critical theory to offer a powerful reading of one of the greatest plays of the tradition... Segal offers an exemplary instance of the fusion of traditional scholarship and current critical practice. -- Cyrus Hamlin Recherches Semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry Well-written and well-documented, based on extensive reading and intensive study, [the book] reveals the Bacchae as a much more beautiful, more interesting, and more important play than has thus far been realized. -- W. J. Verdenius Mnemosyne

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Charles Segal is Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His many books include Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral and Lucretius on Death and Anxiety, both published by Princeton University Press.

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