Bacchae

Question 0

Who is Pentheus?

Answer 0

The young military king of Thebes, he denies Dionysis as a god causing the women to go mad. When trying to spy on the women, while dressed in women’s clothes. Is ripped apart by his own mother.

Question 1

Who is Dionysius

Answer 1

The god of wine, the god that comes to town as a mortal in Bacchae. He wants you to see in double vision, seeing both sides.

Question 2

What does Dionysus stand for?

Answer 2

Wine. Ecstasy. Ambiguities. Drama. Hierarchy. Anti Apollo themes. Masks.

Question 3

Why does Dionysus comes to Thebes?

Answer 3

To punish the woman of Thebes because no one believed his mother was impregnated by Zuse. Also, to spread his cults of mystery.

Question 4

Who is Semele?

Answer 4

Dionysis’ mother. Impregnated by Zuse but none of her family believes her. Hera is jealous and convinces her to beg Zuse to take his true form which kills her, literally with an orgasim

Question 5

Who are the Bacche or Maenads?

Answer 5

Female worshipers of Dionysos/Bacchus. Very animalistic women.

Question 6

who is the Chorus in the Bacche

Answer 6

Foreign maenads, who are initiates in Bacchic mysteries, true believers, stays within the city of Thebes.

Question 7

What is the “warning” within the Bacche

Answer 7

don’t criticize what you don’t know, eccpescally religion

Question 8

who are the two male Thebians that actually accept Dionysis?

Answer 8

Cadmus (Pentheus’s grandfather) and Teiresias (priest)

Question 9

what modern day song describes the Baccahe?

Answer 9

“the end”- the doors

Question 10

What did the german Philosopher, Nietzsche, have to say about the Bacche?

Answer 10

If you don’t learn to accept irrational situations to succeed in life, you will fail. We all need to be mor Dionystic

Question 11

when was the Bacche written?

Answer 11

405 B.C.

Question 12

How is Dionysus related to Pentheus?

Answer 12

Dionysus and Pentheus are first cousins

Question 13

Why does Dionysus return to Thebes?

Answer 13

To punish the house of Cadmus for denying his divinity

Question 14

How was Dionysus born?

Answer 14

) From the thigh of Zeus

Question 15

What do the maenads wear?

Answer 15

Animal skins

Question 16

At the start of the play, what does Tiresias ask Cadmus to do?

Answer 16

Put on ivy and deerskin and join the bacchantes in the mountains

Question 17

What is the first thing Pentheus wants to do to his prisoner Dionysus?

Answer 17

Cut off his locks

Question 18

After Dionysus’s imprisonment what is the first disaster to strike the palace?

Answer 18

earthquake

Question 19

According to the cowherd, what comes out of the ground when the bacchants strike it?

Answer 19

Milk, honey, wine, water

Question 20

How does Dionysus finally tempt Pentheus?

Answer 20

to see the women of Thebes

Question 21

As Pentheus leaves the city, what does he see Dionysus turn into?

Answer 21

a bull

Question 22

What act does Pentheus’s imagination dwell upon when he is about to spy on the bacchants?

Answer 22

Sex

Question 23

How does Pentheus become vulnerable to the bacchants?

Answer 23

He is seen from the top of a tree

Question 24

What does Agaue proudly think she is carrying into the city?

Answer 24

a lion

Question 25

What does Dionysus ordain for Agaue?

Answer 25

She will be exiled, with her sisters but apart from her father