The plays of Euripides . Leader. And passeth on ! The Greek trumpet sounds. Hecuba. Farewell!—O spirit grey, Whatso is coming,Fail not from under me.Weak limbs, why tremble ye ?Forth where the new long dayDawneth to slavery ! THE TROJAN WOMEN 79 Chorus. Farewell from parting lips,Farewell !—Come, I and thou,Whatso may wait us now.Forth to the long Greek shipsAnd the seas foaming.[The trumpet sounds agaiuy and the Women go outin the darkness. THE BACCHAE CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY Dionysus, the God ; son of Zeus and of the Theban princessSemdi. V Qahuvs, formerly King of Thebes^ father ofSemel^

The plays of Euripides . Leader. And passeth on ! The Greek trumpet sounds. Hecuba. Farewell!—O spirit grey, Whatso is coming,Fail not from under me.Weak limbs, why tremble ye ?Forth where the new long dayDawneth to slavery ! THE TROJAN WOMEN 79 Chorus. Farewell from parting lips,Farewell !—Come, I and thou,Whatso may wait us now.Forth to the long Greek shipsAnd the seas foaming.[The trumpet sounds agaiuy and the Women go outin the darkness. THE BACCHAE CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY Dionysus, the God ; son of Zeus and of the Theban princessSemdi. V Qahuvs, formerly King of Thebes^ father ofSemel^

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The plays of Euripides . Leader. And passeth on ! The Greek trumpet sounds. Hecuba. Farewell!—O spirit grey, Whatso is coming,Fail not from under me.Weak limbs, why tremble ye ?Forth where the new long dayDawneth to slavery ! THE TROJAN WOMEN 79 Chorus. Farewell from parting lips,Farewell !—Come, I and thou,Whatso may wait us now.Forth to the long Greek shipsAnd the seas foaming.[The trumpet sounds agaiuy and the Women go outin the darkness. THE BACCHAE CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY Dionysus, the God ; son of Zeus and of the Theban princessSemdi. V Qahuvs, formerly King of Thebes^ father ofSemel^ cPentheus, King of Thebes^ giandson of Cadmus, ^AgAv£, daughter of Cadmus^ mother of Pentheus,Tkiresias, an aged Theban prophet,^.^ ^A Soldier of Pentheus Guard.Two Messengers. A Chorus of Inspired Damsels, following Dionysusfrom the East. ** The play was first produced after the death of Euripides by hisson, who bore the same name, together with the Iphigema in Aulisand the ^Alcmaeony probably in the year 405 B.C.. THE BACCHAE The background represents the front of the Castle 0}Pentheus, King of Thebes, At one side is visiblethe sacred Tomb of Semeli^ a little enclosure over-grown with wild vines, with a cleft in the rocky floorof it from which there issues at times steam or smoke.The God Dionysus is discovered alone, Dionysus. Behold, Gods Son is come unto this land Of Thebes, even I, Dionysus, whom the brand Of heavens hot splendour lit to life, when she Who bore me, Cadmus daughter Semele, Died here. So, changed in shape from God to man,I walk again by Dirces streams and scan