The Bacchae

were called Maenads, meaning mad women . They were away from male observation and thus had no male interference. Due to this, little is known about these cults asides from plays and art depictions which are likely exaggerated . For example, in the Bacchae, the Maenads act ecstatically, wearing animal skins, dancing in a frenzy, chanting, and eating raw flesh . Though ecstatic worship is an attribute of Dionysus, the consumption of raw meat is likely false, with male writers regulating these…

Theater and drama is directly influenced by the fundamentals that Greek dramatics set in the preliminary stages of growth in the theater department. One of the biggest and arguably most important forms of Greek theater was tragedy. The subject of Tragedy is very broad and hard to define. To give the topic the attention it deserves it needs to be placed in its own piece of work to help dive into the different details surrounding Greek tragedy. This paper will start by looking deeply into exactly…