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The Masks of Dionysus

The Masks of Dionysus. Euripides Bacchae 2. “. . . with the fennel, join reverence to riot” (p. 400 ) lit . “Sanctify the hubristic ( hubristas ) fennel rods ( narthēkas ) all around!”. Agenda. Recap and Update Advice, Dionysianism, Analysis Part 2 Discussion Advice for Pentheus…

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The Masks of Dionysus

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  1. The Masks of Dionysus Euripides Bacchae 2

  2. “. . . with the fennel, join reverence to riot” (p. 400) • lit. “Sanctify the hubristic (hubristas) fennel rods (narthēkas) all around!”

  3. Agenda • Recap and Update • Advice, Dionysianism, Analysis Part 2 • Discussion • Advice for Pentheus… • How to Play? • Pentheus’ Maenadic Make-Over (pp. 432 ff.) Bacchae 2

  4. Recap and Update Advice, Dionysianism, Analysis Part 2

  5. Journal Prompt(Agon pp. 414 ff) Imagine yourself inside Euripides' play. What would you say to Pentheus? Is he in the right? In the wrong? What would be your advice for handling this problem he's got? Bacchae 2

  6. Advice… • Make an offering – suicidal (prudential argument) • keep it to himself • religious freedom • pentheus over the top • leadership Bacchae 2

  7. Dionysus, Dionysianism Dionysian initiation Maenads, maenadism Rapture Thyrsus. . . “. . . and with the fennel, join reverence to riot” (p. 400) lit. “Sanctify the hubristic (hubristas) fennel rods all around!” Sparagmos, Omophagia Oresibasia • Cross-dressing • Mystic knowing • Ritual rebirth Maenad/bacchant Bacchae 2

  8. Analysis • prologue (starts p. 395) • Dionysus • parodos (398): “Asian” (Anatolian) Bacchants. Cult hymn • 1st episode (402) • Tiresias, Cadmus, Pentheus • 1st stasimon (412) • Pentheus’ impiety • 2nd episode (414) • AGON: Servant, Pentheus, Dionysus (in disguise) • 2nd stasimon (417) • Thebes’ rejection of Dionysus • Choral dialogue (418): Chorus & D • Earthquake • Trochaic dialogue, D & Leader (420) • “messenger” scene • 3rd episode (422) • Short dialogue, D&P • Messenger scene: hubris in the hills • 3rd stasimon (431) • Hope restored, do not mock the god • 4th episode (432) • D&P. Fitting scene • 4th stasimon (436) • Excited song of vengeance • 5th episode (438) • Messenger (servant on death of Pentheus) • 5th stasimon (442) • Short song of triumph • exodos (443) • Agave’s mad scene • lyric dialogue • Cadmus’s return with Pentheus • recognition, reversal • Lament for Pentheus • Deus ex machina

  9. Aristotle on Bacchae?. . . Anagnorisis, peripeteia, harmartia, catharsis Bacchae 2

  10. Concepts & Application: Bacchae Bacchae 2

  11. How to Play? Pentheus’ Maenadic Make-Over(pp. 432 ff.)

  12. Dionysus to Chorus “Imbue him with a dizzy phantasy. / Sane, he never will consent / to put a woman’s clothing on. . . . Pentheus . . . will come to know full well at last / Dionysus, son of Zeus, a god indeed: / to man most gentle — and most dangerous.” (p. 430) Literally: “Drive him out of his wits (ekstēsonphrenōn). he shall come to know Dionysus, . . . whose nature is to be a god most terrible to those undergoing initiation (en telei), yet to humankind, most gentle.” (lines 859-861) Bacchae 2

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