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Bacchae Flashcards

1
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Dionysus’ parents?

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Semele
Zeus

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2
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“I must vindicate my mother Semele”

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Dionysus in his first speech

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“therefore I will demonstrate to him, and to all Thebes…

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…that I am a god.”

Dionysus first speech

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“he is a fighter against gods, defies me, excludes me from libations, never names me in prayers”

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Dionysus first speech - about Pentheus

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“we see things clearly;…

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…all the others are perverse”

  • Teiresias to Cadmus about how they are the only ones to worship Dionysus
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6
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“he desires equal worship from all men”

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Teiresias on Dionysus

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Pentheus’ first dialogue how does he describe the Bacchants?

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“astounding scandal”
“our women… have left their homes on some pretence”
“upstart god Dionysus”
“give themselves to lecherous men”
says there is more of aphrodite than bacchus in their ritual

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8
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“the truth about Dionysus is that he’s…

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…dead”

Pentheus

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Teiresias representing societal fear of prophets taking advantage of people

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Pentheus says “by introducing a new god, you hope to advance your augurer’s business, to collect more fees”

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Teiresias’ advice to Pentheus ?

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“welcome this god to Thebes, offer libations to him”

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Teiresias on Bacchic influence on women?

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“in the Bacchic ritual, as elsewhere, a woman will be safe from corruption if her mind is chaste”

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Cadmus foreshadowing?

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“remember… Acteon’s miserable fate - torn and devoured by hounds” (for disrespecting Artemis)

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13
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“I will punish this man who has been your instructor in lunacy”

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Pentheus thinks he can punish Dionysus

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14
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“He’s securely in the trap”

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Pentheus to the guard after catching Dionysus

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15
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Dionysus says Pentheus must be punished for his

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“blindness and impiety to the god”

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16
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Pentheus says their “moral standards fall far below ours” about what

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Dionysus says every eastern land dances bacchic mysteries

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17
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“the god himself, whenever I desire, will set me free”
“he is close at hand here”

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Dionysus tricking Pentheus

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18
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“where is he, then? Not visible to my eye”

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Pentheus can’t see Dionysus - foreshadowing

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19
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“your name points to calamity…

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… .it fits you well.

  • Dionysus to Pentheus (foreshadowing)
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20
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“i made a mockery of him”
“he neither held nor touched me, save in his deluded mind”

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Dionysus to the Bacchants about how he tricked Pentheus and escaped

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21
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“he, a man, dared to take arms against a god”

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Dionysus on Pentheus trying to attack him with a sword

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22
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“strange and terrible doings”

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Herdsman describing the bacchants

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23
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How does the herdsman dispute Pentheus’ judgement of the Bacchants?

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He says they were modest - not as Pentheus suggested using the woods to have affairs

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24
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Examples of powers the Bacchants have?

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  • at peace with animals, suckling wolf cubs
  • can make milk or wine from the ground
  • thrysus produce honey
25
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Examples of the Bacchants breaking societal expectations of women?

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“bare-limbed”
“let their hair fall free over their shoulders”
“tied up the fastening of fawnskins they had loosened”
“snatched babies out of the houses”
“turned the men to flight”

26
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What triggers the Bacchants to tear apart the cattle?

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the herdsman and other men try to capture Agave

27
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Who advises Pentheus to accept Dionysus next, after Teiresias, Dionysus himself and Cadmus?

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the herdsman/ messenger

28
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“i would control my rage and sacrifice to him if i were you”

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Dionysus to Pentheus

29
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“this is beyond all bearing, if we must let women so defy us”

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Pentheus after hearing of the Bacchants plundering the villages

30
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what would Pentheus give a “weighty sum of gold” for?

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to see the bacchants

31
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“the Maenads must not mock me; better anything than that”

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Pentheus is afraid of being mocked by women

32
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“he will visit the Bacchae; and there death shall punish him”

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Dionysus lays out his plan/ foreshadows

33
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“first fill him with wild delusions, drive him out of his mind”

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Dionysus is planning to make Pentheus mad

34
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“come, perverse man, greedy for…

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…sights you should not see”

Dionysus on Pentheus

35
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What do Dionysus’ delusions make Pentheus see? (2)

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  • two suns
  • Dionysus as a bull
36
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“you will return borne high…

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…. … in your own mother’s arms”

  • Dionysus tells Pentheus what will happen
37
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P - “you insist that I be spoiled”
D - “one kind of spoiling”
P - “yet I win what I deserve”

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high levels of foreshadowing and dramatic irony

38
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“their hands busy at their happy tasks”

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The Bacchants are twining ivy crowns in the woods - mimics the role of women to stay in the home weaving and the perversion of the bacchants against the expectations of women in Greece

39
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“possessed by the very breath of Bacchus”

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The Bacchants before they kill P

40
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“Pentheus, helpless in this pitiful trap”

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sympathy for P

41
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“Pentheus fell, with one incessant scream as he understood what end was near”

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sympathy / horror

42
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“Agave was foaming at the mouth; her rolling eyes were wild; she was not in her right mind, but possessed by Bacchus”

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Wildness of Agaue

43
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“I have left weaving at the loom for greater things, for hunting wild beasts with my bare hands”

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  • Agaue
    this shows the theme of the danger of women breaking from their boundaries - she has not in fact achieved ‘greater things’ but has killed her own son
44
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“I wish my son were a great hunter like his mother… but he can only fight with gods”

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Agave (still possessed)
reminds us why Pentheus has been killed

45
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“No! I hold Pentheus’ head in my accursed hand”

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Agave’s realisation

46
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“Your guilt, my daughter, was not heavier than his”

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Cadmus blames Pentheus for his downfall “he sinned like you, refusing reverence to a god”

47
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“I kiss the flesh that my own body nourished and my own care reared to manhood”

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Agaue when arranging Pentheus’ body

48
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“therefore death came to him in the most shameful way, at his own mother’s hands”

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Dionysus on Pentheus’ death

49
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“gods should not be like mortals in vindictiveness”

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Cadmus to Dionysus

50
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“there is strange tyranny in the god who sent against your house this cruel punishment”

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Agave on Dionysus

51
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Who is on stage in the prologue of B?

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Dionysus

52
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Who is on stage in the 1st episode of B?

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Cadmus, Teiresias and Pentheus

53
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Who is on stage at the 2nd episode of B?

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Pentheus and Dionysus

54
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Who is on stage in the 3rd episode of Bacchae?

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Pentheus, Dionysus and a herdsman

55
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Who is on stage in the 4th episode of Bacchae?

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Dionysus and Pentheus

56
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Who is on stage in the 5th episode of Bacchae?

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messenger

57
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Who is on stage in the epilogue of Bacchae?

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Agaue, Cadmus and Dionysus

58
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How do the bacchants cross social boundaries?

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they cross the line dividing gods from men and the law of the wild vs. the law of the polis

Classical Civilisation (16 decks)

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