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The Bacchae (/ ˈ b æ k iː /; Ancient Greek: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes / ˈ b æ k ə n t s, b ə ˈ k æ n t s,-ˈ k ɑː n t s /) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.
Clark points out various verbal echoes between the corresponding scenes: for example, in sections 1 and 7, Pistoclerus and his father both compare the girls' sweet talk to bird-lime (viscus), used to trap birds (50, 1158); in sections 2 and 6, Nicobulus talks of the necessity of sailing to Ephesus (342–3, 775–6); and both Lydus (372) and ...
1 Florence. The Duke's palace. 27 III 2 Rossillon. The Count's palace. 128 III 3 Florence. Before the Duke's palace. 14 III 4 Roussillon. The Count's palace. 45 III 5 Without the walls of Florence. 97 III 6 Camp before Florence. 102 III 7 Florence. The Widow's house. 54 IV 1 Without the Florentine camp. 88 IV 2 Florence. The Widow's house. 86 IV 3
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[1] Previous to Dionysus in 69, Schechner practiced and theorized "Six Axioms for Environmental Theater". [1] These axioms were enacted in this play, as well as in other of Schechner's theater pieces: The theatrical event is a set of related transactions; All the space is used for performance; all the space is used for audience.
An "unspoken" sparagmos may have been the central element underlying the very genre of Greek tragedy. [1] [2] Maenads and Pentheus, House of the VettiiSparagmos (Ancient Greek: σπαραγμός, from σπαράσσω sparasso, "tear, rend, pull to pieces") is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling, [3] usually in a Dionysian context.
Idyll XXVI, also titled Λῆναι ('The Bacchanals') or Βάκχαι ('The Bacchantes'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] This Idyll narrates the murder of Pentheus , who was torn to pieces (after the Dionysiac Ritual ) by his mother, Agave , and other Theban women, for having watched ...
The Bacchae, also simply known as Bacchae, is a classical Meitei language play, based on an ancient Greek tragedy of the same name, written by Euripides (480-406 B.C.), one of the three tragedians of classical Athens. Directed by Thawai Thiyam, son of Ratan Thiyam, it is based on the story of king Pentheus of Thebes and Olympian god Dionysus ...