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The Bacchants of Euripides and Other Essays - The Bacchants of Euripides and Other Essays. By A. W. Verrall, Litt.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Cambridge: At the University Press. 1910. - The Riddle of the Bacchae: the Last Stage of Euripides' Religious Views. By Gilbert Norwood, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Assistant Lecturer in Classics in the University of Manchester. Manchester: At the University Press. 1908.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Cyril Bailey
Affiliation:
Balliol College, Oxford

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1911

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1 In two later passages in the play Dr. Verrall sees allusions to the drugging of Pentheus: (1) In 913 he would return to the MS. text ; but apart from the strangeness of the expression, it seems to me impossible that Euripides could have used a phrase so near to the obvious oxymoron without producing almost the effect of a bad pun. (2) In 1157 he sees in the much-vexed a double entente, being used suggest the libation cup as well as the wand, to act as the verbal adjective from as well as in its more ordinary sense. The idea is brilliant, but surely far too subtle to be caught even by the initiated–and that not in dialogue, but in the course of a choric song.