CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Spurn, Fraternities And Sororities, Catacombs
17 Sep 2016
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He makes all the women mad/frenzied, left homes fathers and cities, gone to woods where dionysus is ecstasis, dionyic frenzy. Pentheus ruler of thebes: young prince next in line after cadmus gets too old to rule, agave (mother), ino, autono (sisters of dead semele) women who have slandered semele. Cadmus and tiresias: pentheus arrests the stranger , occupy positon of old wise men giving advice t young rash pentheus who doesn"t listen, he blames dionysus for all the women / people leaving. Dionysos" final appearance and judgment: explains he"s punishing those who rejected him, slandered his mother. Play is much about old wise age vs youthful rashness, lack of wisdom and judgment. Focus on suppression of natural urges/curiosity: diff from hippolytus. Blind seer of thebes special abilities to interpret what gods and goddesses wanted, they"re hired to explain them. Model ancient seer, the most important, always associated with thebes.
