CLAS 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tiresias, Tragic Hero, Sparagmos
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Review: big mask = cadmus other mask = dionysus chorus= doesn"t count against 3 actors. Having a major festival to dionysus is important in order to continue to please dionysus. Edgy refers to the fact that euripides writes of activities or social non-norms that are not so popular in greek society. Nothing in bacchae is ever set in athens. They didn"t want people to think any of those things happened in athens because they want to portray themselves as a wonderful city, especially because they were losing a war. Hubris: inevitably the fatal flaw of the tragic hero, (in the bacchae the tragic hero is penthius, and his fatal flaw is not believing in dionysus) Peripeteia: major plot point in a tragedy, things either go from really good or really bad, and then flip to the opposite. Anagnorisis: can be good or bad, always the aha! moment, (in the bacchae: when.