The Bacchae

Our greatest challenge in creating our piece was finding tangible meaning within the aesthetic aspects of our piece. We would do a lot of brainstorming that involved music and physical movement, so later we had to sit down and talk about the meaning that we’d found and that our classmates had found in the piece. Casey’s “character” was almost like a black hole, if black holes were seen as groovy and upbeat rather than empty and terrifying. It’s like a temptation for something irresistible, yet…

The history of ancient greek theater was originally created in Atenas, between the centuries of VI and V a.C. Athenians would celebrate rites in honor to Dionisio; this primitive ceremonies would slowly evolve to theater, building one of the biggest achievements for the greek. This new type of art was closely associated with greek civilization that every city and important colonies had a theater, which its quality would be a signal of the wealth of the population. Theater, as many as other…

Edward Said’s Orientalism and his critique of the West has been called both controversial and groundbreaking. In his book, he outlines the different ways the Western world since the beginning of time has “othered” the East and therefore taken advantage of and exploited its peoples and cultures all while serving its own imperialist schema. While I agree with the argument that the West is responsible for a number of injustices against “orient,” namely that the West created a binary division of the…

Eric Zahn is a character that is very sardonic in the way he views our world, only to discover a window into a world that is full of demons and ghosts. In the original text the other-worldly beings were described as demons bacchae and satyrs. That the three draw from different mythologies, but are placed into the same story highlights the idea of the an intentional unreliable protagonist. This is played with a deliberate juxtaposition of realism. The audience will experience…

The appropriation of Greek myth in modern narrative fiction has increased in the last ten years, specifically in the young adult genre. Book series such as Oh. My. Gods. and The Goddess Test draw young girls into the world of classical myths, while Percy Jackson and the Olympians captivated an entire generation and introduced them to the complexities and themes of the poll of mythic traditions from Ancient Greece. These new stories that incorporate the mythos help "[re-introduce] an audience…

are nineteen plays by Euripides (c480- 406BCE), which are different again from either of the others in his dramatic use of language but the themes of his plays are less powerful and at times almost incomprehensible. The best known are probably The Bacchae and The Trojan Women. We know less about the Greek comedies because few have survived but scholars have…

viewed as weaker and more cowardly, a thought expressed a number of times in Medea is substantiated by the reckless acts which are driven by their emotional and irrational nature. This theme is also implied in other Greek tragedies such as Euripides’ Bacchae. In the same way, the chorus in Medea, through their participation in crime, act as an index of the world’s corruption. The chorus provides social commentary by signifying various aspects of Greek life, most of which are prominent in the…

The theatre began when the ritual played a role in the development of drama in the days of early people. The ancient societies used ritual to represent their understanding of the human condition and of the world around them . The ritual had a religious purpose, and instructive purpose. It was also a form of entertainment. There were common elements found in ritual such as music, dance and mask and costume. In the early years of the fifth century B.C, Greek literature, theatre, and culture…

Madness, a notion that is centuries old has been questioned for as long as the concept has existed. Different cultures have assigned different names to this group of illness without physical manifestation, but until recently, there have not been concrete definitions that define who is and is not sane. Porter illustrates through the Babylonians and Mesopotamians that madness has been called many names, in many different cultures. “The Babylonians and Mesopotamians held that certain disorders were…

Within this paper I will be exploring the many diverse aspects of the cult of Dionysus in Ancient Greece along the significance they had throughout its time, and the relevance of this religion in our present-day. This discussion will be divided into three sections reviewing, in order; the origins of the cult, the practices that took place within the religion, and comparisons between the cult with Christianity today. The opening section will address how Dionysus, the great God of wine, came to be…