Language and Thinking (L&T) Program Presents
Euripides’ “The Bacchae”: A Lecture and Discussion with Daniel Mendelsohn
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
For Language and Thinking Students
Euripides’ The Bacchae makes extraordinary and unsettling claims about beauty, divinity, desire, violence, justice, prophecy, kinship, love, and the place of human beings in the cosmos. Much of the play’s originality and power revolve around Euripides’ rendering of Dionysus, a young new god at odds with a young new prince who is also his cousin, and their divided loyalties towards Thebes. In this lecture and discussion, Professor Daniel Mendelsohn (Classical Studies) will discuss Euripides with a view toward the broader traditions of ancient Greek tragedy.Wednesday August 10, 11am.
For more information, call 845-758-7141, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://languageandthinking.bard.edu.
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Campus Center, Multipurpose Room