ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
- A. Poochigian [Excerpt printed by the Guardian] [Blogcritics review of production] [Asbarez review and interview] [NYTimes review of production] [LA Times review of production]
- E. Wilson, in M. Lefkowitz and J. Romm (eds.), The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Modern Library (NY, 2016) [Google Books preview]
- A. Carson, Euripides: Bakkhai (New York, 2015) [Bomb Magazine review] [Quarterly Conversation review] [KGB Bar Lit review] [Toronto Star review of a production] [Guardian review of a production] [NYTimes review of a production] [Globe and Mail review of a production]
- R. Robertson (New York, 2014) [NYRoB review] [Whiteman review in Pleiades] [Bookmunch review] [SRB interview] [Ruden review in New Criterion]
- M. Poulton (London, 2010) [Guardian review of production] [Telegraph review of production] [Independent review of production] [Daily Post review of production]
- J. M. Walton [in Six Greek Tragedies] (London, 2002)
- C. Teevan, Euripides: Bacchai (London, 2002) [Preview in Google Books]
- H. Golder (New York, 2001)
- R. Gibbons, Euripides: Bakkhai, with intro and notes by C. Segal (Oxford, 2001)
- D. Franklin (Cambridge, 2000)
- S. Esposito (Focus, 1998)
- P. Woodruff (Hackett, 1998)
- F. Raphael and K. McLeish (London, 1998)
- R. Seaford (ed., tr.) (Aris & Phillips, 1996/7)
- R. E. Meagher, Euripides: Bakkhai (Bolchazy-Carducci, 1995)
- F. Blessington (Arlington Heights, IL, 1993)
- N. Rudall (New York, 1982; repr. Chicago, 1996)
- C. Doria, in The Tenth Muse: Classical Drama in Translation (Athens, OH, 1980) [available on Questia]
- R. Bagg, Euripides: Bakkhai (Amherst, 1978)
- anon., The Bacchae: Dionysus the God, with color etchings by M. Forgeois (Kentfield, CA, 1972)
- G. S. Kirk (tr., comm.) (Prentice-Hall, 1970)
- D. Sutherland (Lincoln, NE, 1968)
- H. Birkhead [in Ten Greek Plays] (Boston, 1957)
- D. W. Lucas, with Greek text as performed at Cambridge, 1930 (Cambridge, 1930; repr. London, 1955)
- M. K. Tennant, The Bacchanals of Euripides (London, 1926) [WorldCat]
- A. Harvey, The Bacchantes by Euripides (Girard, KS, 1923) [WorldCat]
- F. A. Evelyn (London, 1913) [WorldCat]
- G. Murray (with Hippolytus and Aristophanes, Frogs: London, 1902 [Google Books]; repr. frequently [1904 / 1975: HathiTrust])
- A. Kerr [in verse, with Greek text] (Boston, 1899) [Archive.org] [Brief review in the Spectator]
- W. H. Balgarnie and B. J. Hayes (London, 1896) [Archive.org (bound with Thompson & Hayes edition of Greek text and commentary)]
- H. Hailstone (Cambridge, 1892)
- W. J. Hickie, Kelly’s Keys to the Classics (Dublin, 1886)
- J. E. T. Rogers (Oxford, 1872)
- H. H. Milman, The Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Bacchanals of Euripides [with translations of other verse too] (London, 1865)
- anon. [“a Graduate in Honours of the University of Oxford] (London, 1846)
- Glouton, The Bacchanals of Euripides (Brighton, 1845)
- anon., The Bacchae and Heraclidae (Oxford, 1828)
Available Online:
- G. Theodoridis (2005) [Poetry in Translation]
- I. Johnston (2003) [Johnstonia]
- Buckley, rev. Sens, rev. Nagy [chs.harvard.edu]
- Murray [gutenberg.org]
- Coleridge [classics.mit.edu]
Adaptations:
- R. Zaller, The Bacchae: Translated and Adapted from Euripides (Boston: Somerset Hall Press, 2018) [WorldCat] [Somerset Hall Press]
- A. Carson, “Pinplay: A Version of Euripides’ Bacchae,” in Float (New York, 2016) [Buffalo News review] [New Republic review]
GREEK TEXT AND SCHOLARLY COMMENTARIES
Greek Text
- Oxford Classical Texts
- Text & Translation:
- Loeb
- Text & Commentary:
- Dodds
SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND ARTICLES
- S. Mills, Euripides: Bacchae, Duckworth Companions (2006)
- D. Stuttard (ed.), Looking at Bacchae (London, 2016)
- C. Thumiger, Hidden Paths: Self and Characterization in Greek Tragedy: Euripides’ Bacchae (London, 2007)
Reception / Performance
- D. R. MacDonald, The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides (2017)
- S. Perris, The Gentle, Jealous God: Reading Euripides’ Bacchae in English (London, 2016) — includes (chap. 8) reviews of recent translations by Carson and Robertson [Kochenash review in BMCR]
- E. Fischer-Linke, Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides’ The Bacchae in a Globalizing World (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
