religious acts and rituals in Greek tragedy
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- Created on: 23-05-19 16:11
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- Religious Acts and Rituals
- Bacchic rites
- 'I put on fawn skins, and garlands of ivy around my head'
- 'The joys of eating raw flesh'
- 'Sing praise to Dionysus'
- 'Among the dancing bands stand full bowls of wine, and one by one the women creep off to hide in secret places and serve the lusts of men'
- Dionysus came to Thebes 'so that I might be revealed to mankind as a god'
- Dionysus did this through divine power
- 'The earth spread the light of divine fire'
- 'From the upper air a voice, Dionysus, it would seem, cried out'
- Dionysus did this through divine power
- The Bacchae as a tragedy tells us about the founding of the cult of Dionysus and how to worship him (fawnskin, ivy garlands, dancing etc)
- Cadmus and Agave's punishment could be considered a religious act as Dionysus does it as a result of their disrespect to his worship.
- Oedipus thinks he can solve the problems of Thebes and the priests and citizens arrive with branches wrapped in wool to sacrifice
- 'Let me grant your prayers'
- Bacchic rites
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