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Euripides, Bacchae, 216-220

κλύω δὲ νεοχμὰ τήνδʼ ἀνὰ πτόλιν κακά

I happened to be at a distance from this land, when I heard of strange evils throughout this city, that the women have left our homes in contrived Bacchic rites, and rush about in the shadowy mountains, honoring with dance

γυναῖκας ἡμῖν δώματʼ ἐκλελοιπέναι

πλασταῖσι βακχείαισιν, ἐν δὲ δασκίοις

ὄρεσι θοάζειν, τὸν νεωστὶ δαίμονα

Διόνυσον, ὅστις ἔστι, τιμώσας χοροῖς·

this new deity Dionysus, whoever he is. I hear that mixing-bowls stand full in the midst of their assemblies, and that they each creep off different ways into secrecy to serve the beds of men, on the pretext that they are Maenads worshipping;

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

7 results

1. Homer, Iliad, 6.132 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

6.132. /Nay, for even the son of Dryas, mighty Lycurgus, lived not long, seeing that he strove with heavenly gods—he that on a time drave down over the sacred mount of Nysa the nursing mothers of mad Dionysus; and they all let fall to the ground their wands, smitten with an ox-goad by man-slaying Lycurgus.

2. Aristophanes, Birds, 988, 987 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

987. καὶ φείδου μηδὲν μηδ' αἰετοῦ ἐν νεφέλῃσιν

3. Aristophanes, Clouds, 332 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

332. Θουριομάντεις ἰατροτέχνας σφραγιδονυχαργοκομήτας

4. Euripides, Bacchae, 101, 1016, 102-103, 1030, 104-105, 1057, 106-111, 1110, 112-114, 116, 1185, 1274-1276, 130, 135-144, 150, 157, 165, 176-177, 181-183, 192-196, 206, 208, 212, 214-215, 217-431, 537-541, 55-57, 664-665, 699-703, 72-87, 986, 99, 996-998, 100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

100. τέλεσαν, ταυρόκερων θεὸν

100. had perfected him, the bull-horned god, and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks. Choru

5. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 301-304, 385-395, 300 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 4.3.3, 12.10.3-12.10.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4.3.3. Consequently in many Greek cities every other year Bacchic bands of women gather, and it is lawful for the maidens to carry the thyrsus and to join in the frenzied revelry, crying out "Euai!" and honouring the god; while the matrons, forming in groups, offer sacrifices to the god and celebrate his mysteries and, in general, extol with hymns the presence of Dionysus, in this manner acting the part of the Maenads who, as history records, were of old the companions of the god. 12.10.3. And shortly thereafter the city was moved to another site and received another name, its founders being Lampon and Xenocritus; the circumstances of its founding were as follows. The Sybarites who were driven a second time from their native city dispatched ambassadors to Greece, to the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, requesting that they assist their repatriation and take part in the settlement. 12.10.4. Now the Lacedaemonians paid no attention to them, but the Athenians promised to join in the enterprise, and they manned ten ships and sent them to the Sybarites under the leadership of Lampon and Xenocritus; they further sent word to the several cities of the Peloponnesus, offering a share in the colony to anyone who wished to take part in it.

7. Plutarch, Pericles, 6.2, 38.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6.2. A story is told that once on a time the head of a one-horned ram was brought to Pericles from his country-place, and that Lampon the seer, when he saw how the horn grew strong and solid from the middle of the forehead, declared that, whereas there were two powerful parties in the city, that of Thucydides and that of Pericles, the mastery would finally devolve upon one man,—the man to whom this sign had been given. Anaxagoras, however, had the skull cut in two, and showed that the brain had not filled out its position, but had drawn together to a point, like an egg, at that particular spot in the entire cavity where the root of the horn began. 38.2. Certain it is that Theophrastus, in his Ethics, querying whether one’s character follows the bent of one’s fortunes and is forced by bodily sufferings to abandon its high excellence, records this fact, that Pericles, as he lay sick, showed one of his friends who was come to see him an amulet that the women had hung round his neck, as much as to say that he was very badly off to put up with such folly as that.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
amulets	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
archaic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
argeifontes ἀργειφόντης	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
aristophanes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231; Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
bacchants,bacchae,bacchai	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
bassaras,bassarides,bassarae	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
beaumont,lesley a.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
blasphemy	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
charlatans	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
chorus χορός,choral	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
comedy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
crown,crowned	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
cry,ritual	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
delirium	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
dionysos,dionysos xenos	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
dionysos,epiphany	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
dionysos	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172, 314; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
dionysos (bacchus,god),worship by women	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
dismemberment	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
divination	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
dyssebeia	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
earth,earthly	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
echion	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
ecstasy ἔκστασις,ecstatic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
eidinow,esther	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
enlightenment,politics and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 158
euripides,bacchae	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
euripides	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
evohé εὐαί,εὐαἵ,εὐοἷ	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
faraone,christopher a.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
festival,festivity,festive	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
flute	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
frenzy,frenzied	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
gigantomachy	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
hamilton,richard	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
healing,purification ritual and law	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
hekate (goddess)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
hellenistic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
hera	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314; Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 210
hierarchy of means	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
hierocles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
homer	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
homeric,post-homeric	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
household (oikos),family piety	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
household (oikos),shrines	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
ivy	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
kadmos,kadmeian	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
kyrene,purification law	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
lampon	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
leopard	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
liberation	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
lion	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
lloyd,michael	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
lydia,lydian	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
madness	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
maenad-nymphs	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
maenads,maenadic,maenadism,rites/cults	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
maenads,maenadic,maenadism	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
magos	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
male	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
mania μανία,maniacal	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
milk	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
mountains	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
mystery cults,dionysian	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
myth,mythical	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 314
narthex νάρθηξ	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
nature	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
nebris νεβρίς	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
noos/nous,seat of purity/impurity,in the bacchae	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
nymph	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
oedipus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
pardalis	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
parker,robert c. t.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
pentheus	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
pericles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
phren/phrenes,seat of purity/impurity,in the bacchae	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
plague	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
plutarch	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231; Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
prophet	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
rite,ritual,maenadic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
rite,ritual	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
rituals,bacchic	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
secret/secrecy	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
segal,c. p.	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
skin,animal	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
sophia,wisdom in bacchae	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 158
sophism of teiresias in bacchae	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144, 158
suppliant women bacchae compared	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
taplin,oliver	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
teiresias	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
theater,theatrical	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
thebes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231; Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
theomachist,theomachus	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
theomachos	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
theophrastos	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
thyrsus θύρσος	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
torch,torchlight	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
tragedy,tragic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
tragedy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
trance	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
vegetation	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
violence/violent	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
wine	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
woman	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
women,participation in magic	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
women,role in religion and ritual practice	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 248
worship'	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
xenia	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314