Bacchae context

Question 1

religion

Answer 1

• very important
• calendar revolved around religious events
• symposium: drinking party/key social event

Question 2

dionysus

Answer 2

• the fact that this play was performed at the festival of dionysus in a theatre devoted to him
• as many as 17,000 spectators

Question 3

Euripides

Answer 3

• won first prize for the play in 409BC

Question 4

Agamammenon

Answer 4

• By Aeschylus
• Acts of hubris always punished in tragedy
• Protagonist walks on carpet of purple robes and is later killed bu his wife

Question 5

Dionysus was celebrated through the

Answer 5

Komos - key element in festival

• men came out singing and danicng in city

Question 6

Athenian women

Answer 6

• remained at home, looked after day to day running of the oikos
• treated as inferiors, had to be married off with a dowry, arranged marriages, legally possession of husband