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Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

For the film, see The Bacchae (film). For the D.C. band, see Bacchae (band).

"The Bacchae (play)" redirects here. For the classical Meitei language play, see Bacchae (Thiyam play).

"The Bacchantes" redirects here. For the fantasy film, see The Bacchantes (film).

The Bacchae (; Ancient Greek: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes) is an ancient Greektragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides' son or nephew is assumed to have directed.^[1] It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition.

The tragedy recounts the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, who were punished by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus's cousin) for rejecting his cult. The play opens with Dionysus proclaiming that he has arrived in Thebes with his votaries to avenge the slander, repeated by his aunts, that he is not the son of Zeus. Disguised as a foreign holy man, the god intends to introduce Dionysian rites into the city, but the Thebans re

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