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Wikipedia, "The Bacchae"
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The crowd sourced encyclopedia's article on the play, read directly for this entry. Its strength is a well referenced production and plot record: first performance date and venue, tetralogy grouping, prize result and plot sequence. Its limit is that it is not independently peer reviewed, so it is cited here for corroborated production and plot detail rather than for the specialist argument about the play's reliability as evidence for actual Dionysiac rites, which the Holzhausen article supplies instead.
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Wikipedia's community maintained article on Euripides's The Bacchae is a continuously revised tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful here for the play's production and plot record. NotesRead directly. Cited for the play's first performance at the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens in 405 BCE, staged posthumously after Euripides's own death as part of a tetralogy with Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, which won first prize at the City Dionysia; and for the plot, King Pentheus of Thebes rejecting the god Dionysus and attempting to suppress his cult, Dionysus driving the Theban women, including Pentheus's own mother Agave, into ecstatic frenzy on Mount Cithaeron, Pentheus lured to spy on the revelries and torn apart by the maddened women, and Agave carrying his severed head home believing it a lion's trophy.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (75 claims)
This source backs 75 claims across the atlas. As facts: 68 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Performance Works, 67 claims: 61 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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