Bacchae

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  • Created on: 26-01-23 09:14
David Hodgkinson
Opening with family
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David Hodgkinson Opening with family
Dionysus opening speech sets the family at the heart of the play
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David Hodgkinson Thebans
The thebans are closely related to Dionysus family as descendants of Cadmus - Dionysus observes that he has driven ‘all the female seed of Cadmus who are women out of their houses’
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David Hodgkinson Rejection
D has been rejected by his own family
Play opens with d talking about him and semele’s rejection, ends with Pentheus being rejected by his mother as he is ripped apart
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David Hodgkinson Recognition
The mother doesn’t recognise her child just as Pentheus has not recognised Dionysus divine status
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Jack Hitchcock
Pentheus crime
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Jack Hitchcock Pentheus crime
Bare faced impiety, denies d is a god and attempts to stop the cult worship of maenads
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Jack Hitchcock Femininity
If Pentheus often remarks on d’s femininity, it is presumably because he is disturbed by it
when he first meets d he is captivated by his beauty and the first punishment he puts forward is to cut of the hair he had called seductive earlier in the play
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Jack Hitchcock Fatal attraction
Homosexual relationships defined by dual role of eromenos (younger) and Erastes (older)
Shameful to have role of younger once in adulthood, Pentheus is adults and d is adult and straddles boundary of male and female
His desires conflict with established c
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Jack Hitchcock Punishment
Not a spectacle (not on stage) but a source of more symbolic significance
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