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A review by khepiari
The Bacchae by Sirish Rao
5.0
So there was this acute desire to buy myself something special with my first salary. Clothes I don't buy, I steal. Shoes, I practically detest and stick to three pair rule. Bags, people gift me. Food, I spend on it all the time.
So book it is! So I ended buying something classic, something new as well but something different.
I have heard the story of The Bacchae in my Classical Literature lecture. I have read the play out of love for Greek Mythology. I have read about the cult of Maenads. Read about them in The Sandman as well. Bacchae is also the chorus of women who prayed to Dionysus during the Dionysus festival.
Here its abridged prose, and does away with the chorus which presents the happy god of wine. It begins with the vengeful Dionysus and ends with his wrath. Is filled with illustrations that is inspired from the Greek Poetry and Urn design. I mean look at the art! Just look!
The story boils down to rationalism (through Pentheus) versus instinct (through Bacchus). One shouldn't suppress instincts, because when it overflows, it creates chaos. When mediation and pious routine life fails to gain a path of Spirituality, it becomes accessible through madness and chaos.
Or as I read it, never make your kingdom a dry state, bootlegging and public anger will kill you and your own drunk mother will rip you limb by limb.
The Bacchae is one of the greatest tragedies of all time. This book maintains it's authenticity.
So book it is! So I ended buying something classic, something new as well but something different.
I have heard the story of The Bacchae in my Classical Literature lecture. I have read the play out of love for Greek Mythology. I have read about the cult of Maenads. Read about them in The Sandman as well. Bacchae is also the chorus of women who prayed to Dionysus during the Dionysus festival.
Here its abridged prose, and does away with the chorus which presents the happy god of wine. It begins with the vengeful Dionysus and ends with his wrath. Is filled with illustrations that is inspired from the Greek Poetry and Urn design. I mean look at the art! Just look!
The story boils down to rationalism (through Pentheus) versus instinct (through Bacchus). One shouldn't suppress instincts, because when it overflows, it creates chaos. When mediation and pious routine life fails to gain a path of Spirituality, it becomes accessible through madness and chaos.
Or as I read it, never make your kingdom a dry state, bootlegging and public anger will kill you and your own drunk mother will rip you limb by limb.
The Bacchae is one of the greatest tragedies of all time. This book maintains it's authenticity.