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chorus in the Bacchae

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  • “elevating it to be one of the key components of the play” - Stuttard
  • “heightening the pathos” - Wyles
  • “choral account of the Bacchic ritual” - Carey
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Props and costumes in the Frogs

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  • “erect phallus” “sexuality celebrated in Dionysiac rituals” - Cartledge
  • “moving vehicle” - Dover
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costumes in the Bacchae

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  • “smiling masks” “treatment of suffering humanity” - Morwood
  • cross dressing as a “visual representation of Dionysus’ full control” - Wyles
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props in the Bacchae

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  • “severed head of the Parthian’s bitter enemy” - Stuttard

- earthquake: palace goes from “symbol of royal authority to symbol of Dionysus’ power” - Wyles

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The Gods in the Frogs

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  • “Gods as comic characters”

“right time and place” - MacDowell

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The Gods in The Bacchae

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  • “importance of worshiping the gods” - Stuttard
  • “director who constructs his own play within a play” - Foley
  • “reply to contemporary speculation” - Kovacs
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The Gods in Oedipus

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  • “Both fate and Oedipus’ own character are responsible” - Garvie
  • “not one supernatural event in it” - Fagles
  • “a terrible sacrament of the god” - Yeats
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Politics in the Bacchae

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  • “disrupted the city’s social structure” - Morwood

- Pentheus’ “tyrannical behavior” - Carey

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Politics in Oedipus

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  • “both a saviour and a monster” - Goldhill
  • “epitome of the Athenian character”
    “action, swift and vigorous” - Fagles
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Politics in the frogs

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  • “security and prosperity” of the good old days
    “attacked and ridiculed” - Dover
  • purpose of the play = “political action” - Bettendorf
  • “rejection of the new lifestyle” - Redfield
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Sex in Oedipus

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  • his destiny “might have been ours”

“direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother” - Freud

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Sex in the Bacchae

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  • themes of “gender and identity” - Stuttard

- “repulsed by sex and at the same time unconsciously desiring” - Roisman

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Sex in the frogs

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  • “channel for his own ‘excess’ sexuality” - Dover

- Euripides “Lowering the tone of tragedy” - Kovacs

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message of the frogs

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  • “rejection of the new lifestyle” - Redfield
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Pentheus in the Bacchae

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  • “enough of the positive in him to arouse our sympathy”

“releasing in him exactly what pentheus is trying to suppress” - Roisman

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Oedipus in Oedipus

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  • “flawed and incapable of full understanding”
    “gained what he values most - knowledge”
    “Sophoclean irony” - Garvie
  • “Oedipus is his own destroyer” - Fagles
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terror in Oedipus

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  • “Modern vision of a death-haunted universe” - Fagles

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