CAS CL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cithaeron, Physis, Pentheus
13 Apr 2017
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Inside: city: political, psyche: psychological, body: physical, euripedes attacks pentheus" city first, then his psyche, then his body. Apollo occupies a lot of what we are. Bull male virility: hippolytus suppressed his & he paid dearly, the bull will make an appearance in bacchae. Everything outside what the greeks do is dionysus (madness, drugs, alcohol, etc. : dionysus is everything that apollo isn"t, dionysus: outside (hard time being contained, apollo: inside. War between pentheus & dionysus: pentheus denies dionysus" divinity, pentheus & dionysus are cousins, there"s no way dionysus can lose. Dionysus is the main life force, the umbrella: all the gods are life forces, your life force doesn"t hate you or love you, it"s just a big driving power of your life. Pentheus" city, thebes, has no women b/c they were all struck w/ madness by dionysus and expelled to mt. Cithaeron: males: inside, females: outside, dionysus is the only god not to rape women, dionysus bisexual (feminine)
