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Shall We Dance? from the September 27, 2007 issue
In William H. McNeill’s review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy [NYR, September 27, 2007], the maenads who murder Pentheus in Euripides’ play The Bacchae include his mother, not his wife.
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