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Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
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Charles Segal
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In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.
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Littérature54
DOUBLING,
HUNTING,
RITUALS
In
all
these
passages
an
intensely
searching
spirit
is
at
work
that
is
in
its
own
way
also
intensely
religious.
In
these
works,
and
most
of
all
in
the
Bacchae,
Euripides
is
trying
to
grasp
the
"multiple
forms"
of
man's
need
for
gods
and
for
definitions
of
gods.
He
is
asking
what
divinity
is,
how
it
manifests
itself
to
men,
and
how
men
see
it
and
comprehend
it
within
the
means
and
terms
of
human
passion
and
understanding,
moral
consciousness,
civic
institutions,
and
language.
In
addition
to
the
special
traits
of
the
maenadic
cult,
the
Dionysus
of
the
Bacchae,
is
also
that
in
the
divine
which
inspires
yearning
and
fascination
but
always
remains
beyond
our
grasp.