Details About Books The Bacchae
| Title | : | The Bacchae |
| Author | : | Euripides |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 96 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1999 by Nick Hern Books (first published -405) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Classics. Drama. Fantasy. Mythology. Fiction. Theatre |
Euripides
Paperback | Pages: 96 pages Rating: 3.88 | 13545 Users | 618 Reviews
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Dionysus is my favourite ancient Greek god. Why? Because he is the coolest, simple as.“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!"
- The Young Bacchus by Caravaggio, 1595.
Not only is he the god of theatre (a huge passion of mine) but he is also the god of wine, festivals, ecstasy and madness. Every set of self-respecting Gods needs one like him on the team. In a way he represents excess, the excess of human emotion and passion. Every so often we all need a good binge of some sort and any god that denies our needs is a very poor god. Dionysus gets it. He understands.
And he is capable of great good and filling the needs of his subjects, but his whims can easily slip into darkness. In this play he presents himself in a clam collective manner; he does not really represent the aspects of human nature he is god of: he merely facilitates them. He gives man the opportunity to go too far; it’s up to him if he takes it and falls into complete intoxication. And this bespeaks his enthralling power. He is not controlling and does not tamper with free-will, if his subjects worship him to heavily then it is of their own accord.
The Dionysian cult Euripides creates here is one completely necessary in the society of Ancient Greece. He is the solution for the ongoing battle between freedom and restraint. He suggests that the irrational and the indulgent are both necessary for society to function and develop. Any society that denies these things will fall apart in misery. So Dionysus is an important force, but one that should be taken is small measures.
So this is a good play, and it’s completely character driven and loaded with this message (supposedly as a learning tool.) It’s real fun to read.
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| Original Title: | Βάκχαι |
| ISBN: | 1854594117 (ISBN13: 9781854594112) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dionysus (mythology), Pentheus, Cadmus (mythology), Tiresias, Agave |
| Setting: | Thebes(Greece) |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 13545 Users | 618 ReviewsDiscuss About Books The Bacchae
Antigone on PCPSophocles' Antigone is about tyranny, or more broadly authority: Creon's need for order vs. Antigone's need for personal freedom. Everyone loses, Creon most of all, and your reaction to Antigone might depend partly on your feelings about authority; if you're a pro-authority type of person, your sympathies might tend towards Creon.Here we have essentially the same debate. Dionysos shows up in his birthplace of Thebes to start his cult, with a band of ecstatic lady followers in tow.sexy........ thanks euripides for inadvertently writing the secret history
I read this as a pdf from the Internet archive. Actually had to pull another version from Yale for the ending which was missing from the IA version. Two very different translations too. One very Shakespearian and the other rather straight and laking theatrical flair. I prefer the Shakespeare-y version. I see direct parallels with the story of Jesus in Dionysus' birth and later in shedding his Godness, and manifesting as a human to walk among men. The way Dionysus speaks of his own Godliness when
This is the greatest Greek play I have read. I am just speechless. The way Euripides crafted this play was just...no words can give it justice. The rising intensity, the characters, the writing. I'll leave the rest of my thoughts for my actual review but...wow. Just wow.
Dionysus returns to the land of his birth, the city of Thebes, in disguise. He is angry at the women of Thebes for denying him his rights of worship, and sends them all mad. The women become his Bacchantes, and run off into the forest to revel in the rights of Dionysus. They become drunk with wine and dance in wild displays of Dionysian rituals. He is especially angry with the family of Cadmus and seeks their destruction.The chaste and prudish King of Thebes, Pentheus, is furious when he returns
I've read this before, but I just had to experience it again. I'm sure we've all had some experience with lunacy, whether in our reading or in the soft whisper of our lives. When I bring this story in to my imagination and let it grow, it becomes so horrifying that I can barely stand it. It may not be as flashy as anything modern usually is, but deep down, it cannot help but disturb. Crazy mobs? Impiety? Drunken revelry or plentiful bounty or peace from mortal woes? Or is it truly the bald-face
This, dear friends, is a chilling reminder of why I seldom attend parties.
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