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Definition of Bacchanals
1. bacchanal [n] - See also: bacchanal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacchanals
Literary usage of Bacchanals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas by Paul Decharme (1906)
"... MORALITY DOUBTS REGARDING THE GODS — THE NATURE OF ZEUS THE DRAMA OF
THE "bacchanals" THE ORPHIC MYSTERIES / MYTHS are the special material of tragedy. ..."
2. Attic & Elizabethan Tragedy by Lauchlan MacLean Watt (1908)
"CHAPTER XIX " MEDEA," " HIPPOLYTUS," AND " THE bacchanals " A WOMAN'S revenge
for wrong and scorn, a woman's spiteful lie because her illicit passion has ..."
3. Greek Studies: A Series of Essays by Walter Pater (1897)
"... THE bacchanals OF EURIPIDES So far, I have endeavoured to present, with
something of the concrete character of a picture, Dionysus, the old Greek god, ..."
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