Religion in the Bacchae
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- Religious concepts, beliefs and practices in the Bacchae
- Fate ad Free Will
- Cadmus and his remaining family members are given sad destinies of exile
- Pentheus CHOSE to not believe in Dionysus being a god (Hamartia)
- this angered Dio and led him to want revenge
- Pentheus loses all free will and self control once under the control of the go (Towards the end of the 3rd Episode onwards)
- Prophecy and Prophets
- Pentheus is totally dismissive of Tiresias' authority as a prophet when confronting him and Cadmus about dressing about Bacchants
- Religious rituals and acts
- Prologue: Cadmus and Tiresias are dressed as Bacchants and are going to head to Cithaeron to worship Dionysus
- continuity of Bacchic worship
- the women of Thebes perform Bacchic rites in the mountains
- as described in the first Messenger speech
- Prologue: Cadmus and Tiresias are dressed as Bacchants and are going to head to Cithaeron to worship Dionysus
- The role of the gods
- Dionysus exerts the horrors onto Cadmus's family
- Despite being the god of wine and joy etc Dionysus can be utterly ruthless to prove how powerful he is
- has immense power over mortals
- takes control of Pentheus' mind and forces him to dress up and sends him to Cithaeron
- sends the women of Thebes into a Bacchic frenzy and gives them superhuman strength
- can perform miracles
- the bull hallucination, earthquake, causing the women to have superhuman strength etc
- Dionysus exerts the horrors onto Cadmus's family
- Fate ad Free Will
- Goggin: Dionysus is a god who beats down barriers (gender, class, norms etc)
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