OUTLINE THIRTEEN

 

I. STUDY GUIDE

 

1. As you read Euripides, The Bacchae, compare the fate of the characters who fail to

recognize the divinity of Dionysus and reject the god with the fate of those who accept

Dionysus and worship him freely.

II. RESISTANCE MYTHS

 

A. Lykourgos, King of Thrace (Iliad)

1. Nymphs of Mt. Nysa

2. Thetis

B. Pentheus, King of Thebes (Euripides, The Bacchae)

1. Semele

2. Pentheus 1

3. Agave

C. Minyas, King of Orchomenos

 

III. DIONYSUS, ECSTASY AND MADNESS

 

A. The Gift of Wine

1. Ikarios and Erigone

2. Lapiths and Centaurs

3. Dionysus and Hephaestus

B. Maenadism

1. Congregations of Bacchus 1 2, 2 3

2. tympanum and flute 4

C. Tragedy

1. Greater Dionysia 1 5, 2 6, 3 7, 4 8

2. "goat song"?


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