EN 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pope Clement V, Human Female Sexuality, Parable Of The Lost Sheep
13 Sep 2018
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Thyrsus- very long staff, like a king might carry, fertility symbol, pine cone at the end of it, dyonisis carries it. Dionysus comes from the outside, eastern mediterranean. Notions of the central and the margins. Conflict between order, power, authority, control represented by athens by the centre and pentheus and chaos desire on the other hand. Origins of western civilization, greeks were very civilized, barbarian- someone who did not speak greek. Barbarism- response of greeks to non greek speaking africans, persians, Binaries are still present within our society today. pentheus representing athenian control and cultural specifics of order, what makes a society. The bacchae sexual desire and violence, understanding masculine power, two different representations of power pentheus orderly, ruler, authority and dyonisis, Dyonisis leader of the mad worshippers who like to go to the mountains and like to drink energy turns quickly. Pentheus wants to reject, control and punish women who celebrate dionysus but he"s also fascinated by them.
