Bacchae

Question 1

What’s Bacchic mountain dancing called?

Answer 1

Oreibasia

Question 2

Translation of Pentheus’ name?

Answer 2

Penthos, grief

Question 3

What’s the word for short, single lines?

Answer 3

Stichomythia

Question 4

What’s the word for foreigners?

Answer 4

Barbarians

Question 5

How’s Orpheus relevant to Dionysus?

Answer 5

Bacchants killed him

Question 6

Who repeatedly foreshadows pentheus’ fate?

Answer 6

Actaeon

Question 7

Where else is transvestism shown?

Answer 7

Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae

Question 8

What’s the word for revenge?

Answer 8

Nemesis

Question 9

What are Pentheus’ hallucinations?

Answer 9

Two suns and city, dio as bull

Question 10

Two messenger speeches

Answer 10

Messenger speech of seeing the Bacchant worship. Messenger speech of Pentheus’ death. Dionysus explaining how he escaped imprisonment from Pentheus could also be seen as a messenger speech

Question 11

Date

Answer 11

405 BC

Question 12

What was a kommos?

Answer 12

Sung dialogue between an actor and the chorus

Question 13

Kommos in Bacchae

Answer 13

Agave describing killing Pentheus

Question 14

What does Pentheus accuse Tiresias of?

Answer 14

Worshipping a new god so he can get money,

Question 15

How does Pentheus threaten Tiresias?

Answer 15

Throw his holy seat upside-down and hurl his sacred fillets to the ground

Question 16

Pentheus threatening the women

Answer 16

Will sell them as slaves or keep them as servants at his looms, later sends army against them and “will sacrifice a great slaughter of women”

Question 17

Pentheus’ harsh ruling

Answer 17

messenger- “I fear the swiftness of your moods, lord, and your temper, which is excessively kinglike.’

Question 18

Dionysus giving Pentheus a second chance

Answer 18

‘my friend, it is still possible to put this right.’ After first messenger speech

Question 19

Why is Cadmus punished?

Answer 19

Suggestion it is because he lived beyond mortal limits- marrying the goddess Harmony