his family have yielded a willing assent to the new religion. This
solemn warning against the dangers of a self-willed (
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to have made this drama highly suggestive to those intelligent and
educated Jews, who first had a misgiving with regard to the
wisdom of their opposition to Christianity[1]. And the devout and
religious tone of the play would almost make us suppose that Euri-
pides himself, at the close of his life, had become converted from
the sophistic scepticism of his earlier years[2]. It is probable that
the Bacchce was always a favourite play in Macedonia, where it
was first produced. Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great,
openly played the part of the mother of Pentheus[3], and Alexander
himself was able to make an apposite quotation from the text of
this Tragedy[4].
- ↑ This important reference was first made by the writer of these pages in a work entitled, Christian Orthodoxy reconciled with the conclusions of modern Biblical Learning, Lond. 1857, pp. 291 — -294,
- ↑ cf. vv. 200 : (
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v. 393 (Greek characters)
v. 880 : (Greek characters)
- ↑ Plutarch, Vit. Alex. c. 2.
- ↑ Id. Ibid. c. 53 : See Bacch. vv. 266, 267.(Greek characters)
