The Bacchae

Ovid’s Metamorphoses are really determined by the naive nature of each of these three characters and this really is the fuel for Dionysus and Artemis to keep their godly roles in the stories. Callisto and Actaeon from Ovid and Pentheus from the Bacchae both really have naive natures that lead to their their transformation and overall demise. This is really highlighted in the Ovid Stories. We saw how Callisto was tricked by Zeus. “He smiled to hear it, amused to be preferred to himself, and…

Sophoclean Hero and Aristotle's, “...Hamartia... ‘to miss the mark" (as in archery), ‘to fail in one's purpose’, ‘to make a mistake’...”and Pentheus and Oedipus mistake is that they are too proud of themselves. In Oedipus Rex By Sophocles and The Bacchae by Euripides, Oedipus and and Pentheus respectively have excessive pride because of their high standing in society. They both believe that nothing is above them and nothing can bring harm othem. This attitude blinds them from truth and become…

ladder of love. In Plato’s Republic (375 B.C.), the perfect community that he envisions cannot come to fruition because people are either too entrenched in the ways of nomos or in the ways of physis, the natural world and rule of the strong man. The Bacchae completed by Euripides in 406 B.C., has a community completely destroyed by Dionysius showing that Greek tragedy lacks in any sense of justice or even injustice because the destruction of a whole community occurs without reason. The…

Both are easily similar to the events in Jonestown and many comparisons are able to be drawn. In Bacchae we see free spirits in their own space living happily in their utopian existence, messengers sent to spy and invade their peaceful existence, and then the Bacchics transformed into wild beasts who violently destroyed everything in sight. Jonestown…

philosophical issues. His writings reflect his love for Athens and empathy for suffering humanity. There is a fairly large number of extant plays of Euripides. His best known works include “Alcestis”, “Medea”, “Hecuba”, “The Trojan Women” and “The Bacchae”, as well as “Cyclops”. It has been suggested by some that Euripides’ attempts at realistic portrayals sometimes came at the expense of a realistic plot, and it’s said that he sometimes relied…

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…

legitimate sons reminds me in different ways of many of the voices from the great conversation. Dmitri: Plato's Republic (the three aspects of the soul); Aristotle's Ethics (virtue and vice); Sophocles’ Oedipus the King (patricide); Euripides’ The Bacchae (the table and the bed). Ivan: Plato's Republic (the three aspects of the soul); Aristotle's Ethics (virtue and vice); Aristophanes’ Birds (longing for a better city); Augustine, The City of God (the cleaving of the soul). Alyosha: Republic…

priestess IO, whom is turned into a heifer or protection or revenge (178-180). Demeter is the goddess of fertility of soil and grain. She is associated with life, death and rebirth. Demeter is the “gift of grain” as it is said in Euripides Tragedy the Bacchae. She is also well known for being the mother of Persephone, who is raped and then married to Hades (184). Hestia unlike her sisters is a virgin. She is unmarried and protects the hearth and sacred fire. No myths are known of her and she…

Tragedy is a form of drama, theorized to have been created as a tribute to the Greek god of theater: Dionysus. This form of drama was very popular in Ancient Greece, and was performed in theaters from the late 6th century BCE (Szemerényi 302). One of the most popular tragic playwrights of the time was Sophocles, who was known for his famous work, Antigone, a tragedy in which the main character suffers greatly after burying her brother against the king’s wishes (Ridgeway 141). This tragic play…

Written by Zachary Mason; The Lost Books of the Odyssey was originally published in 2008 by Starcherone Books and then later republished in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The book is made up of 228 pages with 44 chapters. Mason tries to show that the last 44 books of the Odyssey are new stories about Odysseus that show new points that are not in the Odyssey as well as a different way of thinking about the people that appear in this book. Mason wants to show that in these 44 books the…