The religious meaning was weakened step by step in the works of Euripides, the Bacchus was evicted from the arena of the tragedy, and the tragedy was gone for ever with the Bacchus.

• 在欧里庇得斯手中，这种宗教内涵渐渐枯竭，酒神被赶出了悲剧的舞台，悲剧也随着酒神一去不返了。