Les Bacchantes. Divers Land of Wonders”

Land of Wonders”

it immediately emerged as a polymorphous phenomenon that asserted itself and grew thanks to the political context of the Restoration and

à travers les inventions de Giotto

during the 19th century

Les Bacchantes. Divers Land of Wonders”Composed by the Greek poet Euripides in the late 5th century BC, the tragedy of the Bacchae depicts a power struggle between Dionysus, the god of life forces, and the king of Thebes, Pentheus. For some 1,400 lines, they seek each other out, never finding each other: they do not speak the same language; their goals differ greatly. But the struggle is unequal: Dionysus has divine omnipotence on his side; Pentheus's desires are so excessive that he