Bacchae Press

Theater Review Bacchae
AP Images; 8/24/2009; 240 words; ...publicity image released by the Public Theater Press Department, Jonathan Groff portrays Dionysus...the Public Theater production of "The Bacchae," running through Aug. 30 at the Delacorte...Central Park. (AP Photo/Public Theater Press Department, Joan Marcus)

Review of Kimberly B. Stratton, Naming the Witch. Magic, Ideology, & Stereotype in the Ancient World (Gender, Theory and Religion Series.(Book review)
Bible and Critical Theory; 2/1/2009; 2028 words; ...THEORY AND RELIGION SERIES) (NEW YORK: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Naming the Witch is a book...triangle between gender, foreignness and magic in Euripides' Bacchae, Euripides' version of Medea, and in Sophocles' Trachiniae...

Van Nortwick, Thomas: Imagining Men: Ideals of Masculinity in Ancient Greek Culture.(Book review)
History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2009; 1128 words; ...earlier book Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (Oxford University Press, 1992), he examined the hero's journey as a model for masculinity...the examples of the protagonists of Oedipus Tyrannos and The Bacchae, Van Norwick argues that the Greek male learned how to share...

Season aiming to satisfy nearly every theatrical taste
Portland Press Herald (Maine); 9/14/2008; 1079 words; Anonymous Portland Press Herald (Maine) 09-14-2008 Season aiming to satisfy nearly every...OF MAINE Paideia of Maine will host a traveling production of "The Bacchae," a Greek classic by Euripides, at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at John...

Free verse impressive for its rhythmic control
Winnipeg Free Press; 8/24/2008; 818 words; ...verse" Leifso calls The Theban Women. It's an adaptation of The Bacchae. In the original Pentheus, King of Thebes, is murdered by his mother...Mierau's second book of poems, Fear Not, appears with Turnstone Press in September.