Euripides' play "The Bacchae"
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Euripides' play "The Bacchae" is an ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the catastrophic consequences of resisting his ecstatic, Bacchic worship.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Euripides' Bacchae | 3 |
| Euripides' play "The Bacchae" canonical | 1 |
| EuripidesTheBacchae | 1 |
| Euripides’ Bacchae | 1 |
| Euripides’ Bacchae (as Semele, later deified) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5089469 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Euripides' play "The Bacchae" Context triple: [Bacchants, depictedIn, Euripides' play "The Bacchae"]
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A.
Sophocles’ play "Antigone"
Sophocles’ play "Antigone" is a classical Greek tragedy that explores the conflict between individual moral duty and state law through the story of a young woman who defies a king’s edict to honor her brother with a proper burial.
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B.
Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex"
Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex" is a seminal ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes King Oedipus’s doomed quest to uncover the truth about his own identity and the source of a plague afflicting Thebes.
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C.
Euripides’ play "Ion"
Euripides’ play "Ion" is an ancient Greek tragedy that explores themes of identity, divine intervention, and legitimacy through the story of a young man unknowingly born of Apollo and Creusa.
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D.
Euripides' Phoenician Women
Euripides' *Phoenician Women* is an ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes the conflict between the brothers Eteocles and Polyneices over the throne of Thebes and the devastating consequences for their family and city.
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E.
Euripides’ play Heracleidae
Euripides’ play *Heracleidae* is an ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes the persecution and eventual deliverance of Heracles’ children as they seek asylum in Athens, highlighting themes of justice, supplication, and Athenian heroism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Euripides' play "The Bacchae" Target entity description: Euripides' play "The Bacchae" is an ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the catastrophic consequences of resisting his ecstatic, Bacchic worship.
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A.
Sophocles’ play "Antigone"
Sophocles’ play "Antigone" is a classical Greek tragedy that explores the conflict between individual moral duty and state law through the story of a young woman who defies a king’s edict to honor her brother with a proper burial.
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B.
Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex"
Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex" is a seminal ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes King Oedipus’s doomed quest to uncover the truth about his own identity and the source of a plague afflicting Thebes.
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C.
Euripides’ play "Ion"
Euripides’ play "Ion" is an ancient Greek tragedy that explores themes of identity, divine intervention, and legitimacy through the story of a young man unknowingly born of Apollo and Creusa.
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D.
Euripides' Phoenician Women
Euripides' *Phoenician Women* is an ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes the conflict between the brothers Eteocles and Polyneices over the throne of Thebes and the devastating consequences for their family and city.
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E.
Euripides’ play Heracleidae
Euripides’ play *Heracleidae* is an ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes the persecution and eventual deliverance of Heracles’ children as they seek asylum in Athens, highlighting themes of justice, supplication, and Athenian heroism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek tragedy
ⓘ
play ⓘ work by Euripides ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
film
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modern stage adaptations ⓘ opera ⓘ |
| author | Euripides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | first prize at the City Dionysia ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
conflict between rational order and ecstatic religion
ⓘ
divine vengeance ⓘ identity and disguise ⓘ limits of human authority ⓘ madness and possession ⓘ |
| containsScene |
Agave's recognition of Pentheus' head
ⓘ
Pentheus spying on the Bacchae ⓘ |
| dateOfFirstPerformance | 405 BC ⓘ |
| depictsEvent |
Agave killing Pentheus in a Bacchic frenzy
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arrival of Dionysus in Thebes ⓘ punishment of Pentheus ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Agave
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cadmus NERFINISHED ⓘ Dionysus NERFINISHED ⓘ Pentheus NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiresias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresGroup |
Bacchae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maenads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformedAt | City Dionysia in Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | tragedy ⓘ |
| hasChorus | Bacchae from Asia Minor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Roman tragedy
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modern theatre ⓘ psychoanalytic interpretations of myth ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Classical Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralQuestion | consequences of denying a god his due honor ⓘ |
| motif |
disguise of a god as a mortal
ⓘ
omophagia ⓘ sparagmos ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| philosophicalReception |
discussed in theories of the Apollonian and Dionysian
ⓘ
interpreted by Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Dionysian cult ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure |
episodes
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exodos ⓘ parodos ⓘ prologue ⓘ stasima ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | extant complete play by Euripides ⓘ |
| writtenDuring | Euripides' stay in Macedonia ⓘ |
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Subject: Euripides' play "The Bacchae" Description of subject: Euripides' play "The Bacchae" is an ancient Greek tragedy that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the catastrophic consequences of resisting his ecstatic, Bacchic worship.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bacchants
this entity surface form:
Euripides' Bacchae
this entity surface form:
Euripides’ Bacchae (as Semele, later deified)
this entity surface form:
Euripides' Bacchae
this entity surface form:
Euripides' Bacchae
this entity surface form:
Euripides’ Bacchae
this entity surface form:
EuripidesTheBacchae