Bacchae Scholarship Flashcards
Pat Easterling divine justice
‘all the people involved suffer far worse than they deserve’
Mossman sympathise with Pentheus
‘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.’
Podleki dionysus
‘an absorption with self bordering on egomania.’
Schechner Dionysus
‘like a glutton at a feast…he gorges himself until he is appeased’
‘capricious god’
Conacher intelligence
‘it is not reason and intelligence but the wrong use of them which [the poet] is decrying.’
Robert Lima Dionysus’ actions
‘his actions are beyond comprehension even though presented in the context of human emotions.’
Glover Dionysus
‘he meant us also to feel that he is evil.’
Rutherford Euripides
‘Euripides went a long way to democratize tragedy, giving greater prominence to slaves, children, old nurses, minor characters.’
