Pentheus

The Bacchae, written by Euripides, and Euthyphro, recorded by Plato, are both centered around the issue of piety and what constitutes piety. The Bacchae delves a little further into piety by also elaborating on the repercussions of being impious. Both works were written around 400 BCE and share a common thread in regards to attempting to convert people to their respective ways of thinking. However it can certainly be concluded that the two works take very different approaches in order to gain…

Bacchae, Homer’s the Odyssey, and Virgil’s the Aeneid discusses religion in terms of personal needs, or popularity, amongst the gods, rather than devotion and good deeds. The Bacchae by Euripides is an ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother, Agave,…

In Bacchus and Pentheus, Pentheus disregards Bacchus, the god of wine and madness, as a god and tries to convince his family of this. No one is persuaded so Pentheus goes to Mount Cithaeron to spy on the congregation of Bacchus’ followers. Pentheus’ mother Agave, a follower of Bacchus, spots him and thinks he is an animal. “He has no arms to stretch out to his mother, unlucky man…

Dionysus was a Greek god who was mostly known for as a God of Wine. Past images and descriptions of Dionysus depicted him as an adult male with a beard and long hair. He wore a robe and holds a fennel staff with pine-cone on top. His parents are Zeus, god of thunder, and his mother is a princess mortal, Semele of Thebes. Before Dionysus was born, his mother was killed by Zeus’s thunderbolts. According to the article on website, Theoi, Semele was tricked into seeing Zeus in his true form by…

A thrilling tangent right here is the connection that comedy has with the interactions between men and gods. Socrates’ relationship to the gods is specific. part of his conviction, corrupting the kids, stemmed from the unique accusation that he does no longer accept as true with within the Athenian gods and teaches this to youths, thereby corrupting them. Socrates’ dialogue of this results in the very interesting idea of daimonia, the “daimonic beings” which Meletus accuses Socrates of believing…

Within the last hundred years, American women were given the right to vote. It was understood that a woman was more than the property of the male authorities in her life. She had just as much right to have her voice heard. Moreover, women now have the opportunity to make a living for themselves; they do not have to be dependent on men for survival. Society began to realize that women were capable of being more than a homemaker; that the idea of a woman wanting more from life than just being a…

Animals are thought to be separate from humans. However, they both are in the animal kingdom, and even as mammals they share certain characteristics: they are vertebrates, endothermic, have body hair, and mammary glands. These characteristics are what relates animals to humans. Although, there are various aspects which distinguishes an animal from a human. Humans are self-conscious beings, who have emotions, language, a complex thought process, and philosophical thinking. These are the key…

Women in Ancient Greece lack the rights that the female gender have grown in to today. The men during this time are blatant about their sexism, expecting the women to remain submissive to their husbands, take care of the children and household duties, and be as modest as possible. There was no free-will involved as they were married off without a say and their lives consisted of them as the subservient wife. Dionysus changes this, taking the women as his worshipers, also known as his “Bacchae”.…

In Eurpidies’ Bacchae, having been beset by troubles from his conception, Dionysus returns to his mother’s city, bringing along his characteristically ecstatic followers and driving mad those who slander his mother. The struggle between king Pentheus and Dionysus, rationale’s attempt to dismiss insanity, is a theme that is continuously explored up to modern times, with differing opinions on which power should be dominant. The difference between order and chaos can be seen in the contrast…

In society, there are often figures that maintain a god-like presence. These figures include tangible entities such as presidents, dictators, kings, queens, or even gods themselves, such as Dionysus in Euripides’ The Bacchae. All of these entities are god-like because they exert an extraordinary influence on human beings and their actions. While physical beings can possess god-like qualities, this is not always the case; intangible concepts can also assume a “divine force” in society. Given this…