The Bacchae (In Our Time)
405 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides' great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and humiliation in a long war with Sparta. The action seen or described on stage was brutal: Pentheus, king of Thebes, is torn into pieces by his mother in a Bacchic frenzy and his grandparents condemned to cr
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 405 BCE
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)