8. ‘A note of solemn warning… is meant to be heard throughout the drama’ (Oedipus)
R. C. Jebb
C. M. Bowra
Friedrich Nietzche
Jews Holzhausen
9. • ‘It’s mixture of slapstick, nonsense and more serious political, cultural and moral insights, has proved a perennial favourite’ (Frogs)
Judith Affleck and Clive Letchford
Kenneth J. Dover
Dr Sean McEvoy
Martha Habash
10. The chorus' madness is the 'positive ritual experience of identification with the god' whereas the madness of the Theban women is a 'painful affliction' (Bacchae)
Clive Letchford
Jews Holzhausen
Marina Goggin (quoting S. G. Cole)
Friedrich Nietzche
11. ‘Sophocles conceived doomed Oedipus, the greatest sufferer of the Greek stage, as a pattern of nobility, destined to error and misery, despite his wisdom’ (Oedipus)
E. R. Dodds
R. C. Jebb
Friedrich Nietzche
C. M. Bowra
12. ‘The political question that emerges most insistently in this play is whom to trust’ (Frogs)
Jews Holzhausen
Judith Affleck and Clive Letchford
Martha Habash
Kenneth J. Dover
13. ‘Scholars have frequently observed that Dionysus is a god who beats down barriers (of gender, class, social norms, etc.) (Bacchae)
Marina Goggin
Jews Holzhausen
Dr Sean McEvoy
C. W. Marshall
14. ‘In general, foreign religions carried magical, profiteering and sexually promiscuous connotations, as well as a damning appeal to women and people of a low social status’ (Bacchae)
Marina Goggin
E. R. Dodds
Jews Holzhausen
Clive Letchford
15. ‘Frogs… is also a document from which we can infer Athenian attitudes to tragedy' (Frogs)
Martha Habash
C. M. Bowra
Kenneth J. Dover
Judith Affleck and Clive Letchford
16. ‘In Frogs, Aristophanes both tests new parameters of Old comedy and also strengthens existing ones’ (Frogs)
Martha Habash
Judith Affleck and Clive Letchford
Dr Sean McEvoy
Kenneth J. Dover
17. ‘The central idea of Sophoclean tragedy is through suffering a man learns to be modest before the gods’ (Oedipus)
