Bacchae Scholarship Flashcards

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Pat Easterling divine justice

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‘all the people involved suffer far worse than they deserve’

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Mossman sympathise with Pentheus

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‘easier for a mortal audience to sympathise with another mortal, even an unpleasant one, rather than with a god who cannot die or be hurt.’

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Podleki dionysus

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‘an absorption with self bordering on egomania.’

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Schechner Dionysus

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‘like a glutton at a feast…he gorges himself until he is appeased’
‘capricious god’

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Conacher intelligence

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‘it is not reason and intelligence but the wrong use of them which [the poet] is decrying.’

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Robert Lima Dionysus’ actions

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‘his actions are beyond comprehension even though presented in the context of human emotions.’

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Glover Dionysus

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‘he meant us also to feel that he is evil.’

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Rutherford Euripides

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‘Euripides went a long way to democratize tragedy, giving greater prominence to slaves, children, old nurses, minor characters.’

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