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Euripides, Bacchae, 222-232


κρατῆρας, ἄλλην δʼ ἄλλοσʼ εἰς ἐρημίανthis 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;


πτώσσουσαν εὐναῖς ἀρσένων ὑπηρετεῖνthis 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;


πρόφασιν μὲν ὡς δὴ μαινάδας θυοσκόουςthis 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;


τὴν δʼ Ἀφροδίτην πρόσθʼ ἄγειν τοῦ Βακχίου.but they consider Aphrodite before Bacchus.As many of them as I have caught, servants keep in the public strongholds with their hands bound, and as many as are absent I will hunt from the mountains, I mean Ino and Agave, who bore me to Echion, and


nanbut they consider Aphrodite before Bacchus.As many of them as I have caught, servants keep in the public strongholds with their hands bound, and as many as are absent I will hunt from the mountains, I mean Ino and Agave, who bore me to Echion, and


σῴζουσι πανδήμοισι πρόσπολοι στέγαις·but they consider Aphrodite before Bacchus.As many of them as I have caught, servants keep in the public strongholds with their hands bound, and as many as are absent I will hunt from the mountains, I mean Ino and Agave, who bore me to Echion, and


ὅσαι δʼ ἄπεισιν, ἐξ ὄρους θηράσομαιbut they consider Aphrodite before Bacchus.As many of them as I have caught, servants keep in the public strongholds with their hands bound, and as many as are absent I will hunt from the mountains, I mean Ino and Agave, who bore me to Echion, and


Ἰνώ τʼ Ἀγαύην θʼ, ἥ μʼ ἔτικτʼ Ἐχίονιbut they consider Aphrodite before Bacchus.As many of them as I have caught, servants keep in the public strongholds with their hands bound, and as many as are absent I will hunt from the mountains, I mean Ino and Agave, who bore me to Echion, and


Ἀκταίονός τε μητέρʼ, Αὐτονόην λέγω.Autonoe, the mother of Actaeon. And having bound them in iron fetters, I will soon stop them from this ill-working revelry. And they say that some stranger has come, a sorcerer, a conjuror from the Lydian land


καὶ σφᾶς σιδηραῖς ἁρμόσας ἐν ἄρκυσινAutonoe, the mother of Actaeon. And having bound them in iron fetters, I will soon stop them from this ill-working revelry. And they say that some stranger has come, a sorcerer, a conjuror from the Lydian land


παύσω κακούργου τῆσδε βακχείας τάχα.Autonoe, the mother of Actaeon. And having bound them in iron fetters, I will soon stop them from this ill-working revelry. And they say that some stranger has come, a sorcerer, a conjuror from the Lydian land


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

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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. Homer, Odyssey, 5.470 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

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

987. καὶ φείδου μηδὲν μηδ' αἰετοῦ ἐν νεφέλῃσιν
4. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 2-3, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1. ἀλλ' εἴ τις ἐς Βακχεῖον αὐτὰς ἐκάλεσεν
5. Aristophanes, Clouds, 332 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

332. Θουριομάντεις ἰατροτέχνας σφραγιδονυχαργοκομήτας
6. Euripides, Bacchae, 101, 1016, 102-103, 1030, 104-105, 1057, 106-111, 1110, 112-118, 1185, 119-127, 1274-1276, 128-169, 176-177, 181-183, 192-196, 206, 208, 212, 214-221, 223-319, 32, 320-329, 33, 330-339, 34, 340-349, 35, 350-359, 36, 360-369, 395-396, 424-431, 435-450, 487, 537-541, 55-57, 616-635, 64-66, 665, 67-68, 686-688, 69-91, 918-919, 92, 920-922, 93-98, 986, 99, 996, 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
7. Euripides, Fragments, 700, 703, 439 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Euripides, Hippolytus, 360-365, 373-430, 438-446, 490-491, 525-542, 713-714, 725-727, 359 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Euripides, Ion, 551-553, 550 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

550. Didst thou in days gone by come to the Pythian rock? Xuthu
10. Sophocles, Ajax, 451-460, 65-73, 450 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

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

12. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 6.54 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

13. 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.
14. Livy, History, 39.8.7 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

15. Plutarch, Pericles, 6.2 (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.
16. Demosthenes, Orations, 18.259, 19.199

17. Epigraphy, Lsam, 48



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
archaic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
argeifontes ἀργειφόντης Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
aristogeiton Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 160
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
asia,asian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
athena Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 319
athens,athenian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 319
bacchants,bacchae,bacchai Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 171, 172
bassaras,bassarides,bassarae Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
bull Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 319
cattle Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
charlatans Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
chorus χορός,choral Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 314
comedy,comic technique Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 112
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
cult,cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 319
cults,mysteries Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 112
dance,dancing,ecstatic,frenzied,maenadic,orgiastic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
delirium Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
dionysos,dionysos xenos Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314, 319
dionysos,epiphany Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
dionysos Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 171, 172, 314, 319; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
dismemberment Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 171, 172
divination Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
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, 162, 171, 172
enlightenment,politics and Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 158
eros,bacchants,obsession of pentheus with sexual impropriety of Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 159, 160
eros (sexual desire),womens Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 361
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
fawn Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
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
goat Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
hellenistic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 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
incest,in tragedy Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 361
initiate Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
inspiration Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
ivy Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
kadmos,kadmeian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 314
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, 319
maenad-nymphs Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
maenads,maenadic,maenadism,rites/cults Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 171, 172
maenads,maenadic,maenadism Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 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, 319
mendelsohn,daniel Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 160
milk Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
mountains Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171, 172
myth,mythical Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 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
night,nocturnal Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
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
pentheus Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314, 319
pericles Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
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
priests,of mystery cults Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 112
prophet Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
rite,ritual,maenadic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 171, 172
rite,ritual Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 171, 172
rome,roman Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
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
sex,sexuality Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
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
susanetti,davide Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 159, 160
taplin,oliver Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
teiresias Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
theater,theatrical Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314, 319
thebes,theban Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 319
thebes Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
theomachist,theomachus Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
thiasos θίασος Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162
thyrsus θύρσος Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
torch,torchlight Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 172
tragedy,sexuality Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 361
tragedy,tragic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 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, 162, 314
virginity,of tragic characters Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 361
wine Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 172
woman Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 162, 171, 172, 319
women in greek culture greek misogyny and Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 159, 160
worship' Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 171
xenia Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314