Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
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Aeschylus
Agriculture (Chinese mythology)
Alcestis
Ambiguity
Antistrophe
Antithesis
Apollo
Apollonian and Dionysian
Augury
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Chthonic
Cithaeron
Classics
Cult of Dionysus
Dichotomy
Dionysus
Dirce
Dismemberment
Echion
Epic poetry
Epithet
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Euripides
Fiction
Futility (poem)
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Gilbert Murray
Golden Age
Greece
Greek mythology
Greek tragedy
Hippolytus (play)
Homer
Hoplite
Human sacrifice
Iphigenia
Iphigenia in Tauris
Irony
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Kratos (mythology)
Libation
Maenad
Moralia
Muse
N. (novella)
Narrative
Neurosis
Oedipus the King
On the Mountain
Oreste
Oxymoron
Pentheus
Pharmakos
Pity
Poetry
Procession
Proetus
Semele
Simile
Sophocles
Stasimon
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The Bacchae
The Other Hand
Thebes
Thucydides
Thyrsus
Tiresias
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- ISBN 9780691015972
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.
Charles Segal is Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His many books include Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral and Lucretius on Death and Anxiety, both published by Princeton University Press.
