The Bacchae

Translations

  • Theodore Alois Buckley, 1850: prose[52]
  • Henry Hart Milman, 1865: verse
  • Edward P. Coleridge, 1891: prose[53]
  • Gilbert Murray, 1911: verse[54]
  • Arthur S. Way, 1912: verse
  • D. W. Lucas, 1930: prose
  • Moses Hadas and John McLean, 1936: prose[55]
  • Philip Vellacott, 1954: prose and verse
  • F. L. Lucas, 1954: verse[56]
  • Henry Birkhead, 1957: verse
  • William Arrowsmith, 1958: verse[57]
  • Paul Roche, 1969: verse
  • Geoffrey Kirk, 1970: prose and verse
  • Wole Soyinka, 1973[58]
  • Philip Vellacott, 1973[59]
  • Robert Bagg, 1978: verse (as The Bakkhai)[60]
  • Michael Cacoyannis, 1982: verse[61]
  • Matt Neuberg, 1988: verse[62]
  • Arthur Evans, 1988, prose and verse, as The God of Ecstasy (St. Martin's Press)
  • Derek Mahon, 1991 [63]
  • Nicholas Rudall, 1996
  • Richard Seaford, 1996: prose[64]
  • Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish, 1998[65]
  • Daniel Mark Epstein, 1998: verse[66]
  • Stephen J. Esposito, 1998[67]
  • Paul Woodruff, 1999: verse
  • James Morwood, 1999[68]
  • Reginald Gibbons, 2000: verse ISBN 0-19-512598-3
  • David Franklin, 2000: prose[69][70]
  • David Kovacs, 2003[71]
  • Ian C. Johnston, 2003: verse[72]
  • Colin Teevan, 2003: verse (as "Bacchai")
  • George Theodoridis, 2005: prose[73]
  • Michael Valerie, 2005: verse[74]
  • Michael Scanlan, 2006: verse (La Salle Academy: Providence, RI)
  • Graham Kirby, 2009: verse (The Scoop)
  • Che Walker, 2013: play with songs as The Lightning Child
  • Robin Robertson, 2014: verse
  • Anne Carson, 2015: verse (as The Bakkhai)
  • David Stuttard, 2016: verse[75]
  • Emily Wilson, 2016: verse[76]
  • Emma Pauly, 2019: prose and verse[77]
  • Brian Vinero, 2020: rhymed verse[78]

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