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[ SOLD OUT ] EURIPIDES, Bacchae. Edited with introduction and commentary by E.R. Dodds. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953. Reprint 1st ed. LV,231p. Original gilt titled cloth. Pages a bit yellowed. ‘In this authoritative and scholarly edition of the ‘Bacchae’ Professor Dodds (…) presents an objective and balanced picture of Euripides not as a propagandist but as a dramatist, and of the ‘Bacchae’ as one of Euripides’ greatest plays. Of particular value is Professor Dodds’s examination of the Dionysiac cult. with a wealth of supporting evidence from Greek literature and art, and interesting parallels from other lands and other ages, he shows that the features of the cult which play so prominent a part in the ‘Bacchae’- the mass hysteria of ‘oreibasia’ and the revolting savagery of ‘homophobia’ - are the canalization inter rituals of certain irresistible forces in life. Euripides is neither defending nor attacking the worship of Dionysus. with the sensitivity of the dramatist he is showing how human beings may be affected by a force which is universal and irresistible. The commentary on the text is no less thorough. Difficulties and ambiguities are discussed fully and fairly with the authority of profound scholarship.’ (D.G.B. in Greece & Rome, 1945, p.95). From the library of the late Prof. Dr. Tony Reekmans. (Antiquarian) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable)