![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://humanitiesinaminute.ie.edu/video/david-hernandez-de-la-fuente-bacchae/&media=https://humanitiesinaminute.ie.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/david-hernandez-de-la-fuente-the.jpg&description=<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hern%C3%A1ndez_de_la_Fuente" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Hernández de la Fuente</a> - Humanities Professor. IE University and UNED.
Reading:
<em><strong>The Bacchae</strong></em> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Euripides</a> (ancient greek tragedy), 5th century b.c.
I, the son of Zeus, have come to this land of the Thebans—Dionysus, whom once Semele, Kadmos' daughter, bore, delivered by a lightning-bearing flame. And having taken a mortal form instead of a god's, I am here at the fountains of Dirke and the water of Ismenus. And I see the tomb of my thunder-stricken mother here near the palace, and the remnants of her house, smouldering with the still living flame of Zeus' fire, the everlasting insult of Hera against my mother. I praise Kadmos, who has made this place hallowed, the shrine of his daughter; and I have covered it all around with the cluster-bearing leaf of the vine.)
David Hernández de la Fuente – Humanities Professor. IE University and UNED.
Reading:
The Bacchae by Euripides (ancient greek tragedy), 5th century b.c.
I, the son of Zeus, have come to this land of the Thebans—Dionysus, whom once Semele, Kadmos’ daughter, bore, delivered by a lightning-bearing flame. And having taken a mortal form instead of a god’s, I am here at the fountains of Dirke and the water of Ismenus. And I see the tomb of my thunder-stricken mother here near the palace, and the remnants of her house, smouldering with the still living flame of Zeus’ fire, the everlasting insult of Hera against my mother. I praise Kadmos, who has made this place hallowed, the shrine of his daughter; and I have covered it all around with the cluster-bearing leaf of the vine.
