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Euripides, Bacchae, 366


τῷ Βακχίῳ γὰρ τῷ Διὸς δουλευτέον.it would be shameful for two old men to fall down. But let that pass, for we must serve Bacchus, the son of Zeus. Beware lest Pentheus bring trouble to your house, Kadmos; I do not speak in prophecy, but judging from the state of things; for a foolish man speaks foolishness. Choru


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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. Homeric Hymns, To Pan, 46 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)

3. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 25 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

25. ἐξ οὗτε Βάκχαις ἐστρατήγησεν θεός 25. ever since he, as a god, led the Bacchantes in war, and contrived for Pentheus death as of a hunted hare. I call on the streams of Pleistus and the strength of Poseidon, and highest Zeus, the Fulfiller; and then I take my seat as prophetess upon my throne.
4. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 263 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

263. Φαλῆς ἑταῖρε Βακχίου
5. Aristophanes, Birds, 988, 987 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

987. καὶ φείδου μηδὲν μηδ' αἰετοῦ ἐν νεφέλῃσιν
6. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 1313 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1313. θυρσαδδωᾶν καὶ παιδδωᾶν.
7. Aristophanes, Clouds, 605, 332 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

332. Θουριομάντεις ἰατροτέχνας σφραγιδονυχαργοκομήτας
8. Aristophanes, Frogs, 1259 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1259. τὸν Βακχεῖον ἄνακτα
9. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 988 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

988. δέσποτ': ἐγὼ δὲ κώμοις
10. Euripides, Bacchae, 1029, 1079, 1089, 1093, 1124, 1131, 1145, 115-116, 1168, 117-118, 1189, 119, 129, 1387, 145, 152-153, 169, 176-177, 181-183, 192-196, 206, 208, 214-365, 367-431, 435-469, 485-486, 491, 51, 528-530, 578, 605, 62, 623, 629, 632, 664, 67-68, 690, 735, 759, 779, 785, 791, 799, 82-83, 837, 842, 847, 862, 915, 940, 942, 946, 987, 998, 1020 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1020. ἴθʼ, ὦ Βάκχε, θηραγρευτᾷ βακχᾶν 1020. Go, Bacchus, with smiling face throw a deadly noose around the hunter of the Bacchae as he falls beneath the flock of Maenads. Second Messenger
11. Euripides, Cyclops, 156, 446, 709, 143 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

143. ὁ Βακχίου παῖς, ὡς σαφέστερον μάθῃς. 143. The son of the Bacchic god, that thou mayst learn more certainly. Silenu
12. Euripides, Hecuba, 121, 1076 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1076. ποῖ πᾷ φέρομαι τέκν' ἔρημα λιπὼν
13. Euripides, Hippolytus, 551 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

14. Euripides, Ion, 550, 552-553, 716-717, 218 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

15. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 953 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

16. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 685-686, 1489 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

17. Euripides, Rhesus, 972 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

972. As under far Pangaion Orpheus lies
18. Herodotus, Histories, 4.79 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4.79. But when things had to turn out badly for him, they did so for this reason: he conceived a desire to be initiated into the rites of the Bacchic Dionysus; and when he was about to begin the sacred mysteries, he saw the greatest vision. ,He had in the city of the Borysthenites a spacious house, grand and costly (the same house I just mentioned), all surrounded by sphinxes and griffins worked in white marble; this house was struck by a thunderbolt. And though the house burnt to the ground, Scyles none the less performed the rite to the end. ,Now the Scythians reproach the Greeks for this Bacchic revelling, saying that it is not reasonable to set up a god who leads men to madness. ,So when Scyles had been initiated into the Bacchic rite, some one of the Borysthenites scoffed at the Scythians: “You laugh at us, Scythians, because we play the Bacchant and the god possesses us; but now this deity has possessed your own king, so that he plays the Bacchant and is maddened by the god. If you will not believe me, follow me now and I will show him to you.” ,The leading men among the Scythians followed him, and the Borysthenite brought them up secretly onto a tower; from which, when Scyles passed by with his company of worshippers, they saw him playing the Bacchant; thinking it a great misfortune, they left the city and told the whole army what they had seen.
19. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

69c. from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification. And I fancy that those men who established the mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods. For as they say in the mysteries, the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few ;
20. Sophocles, Antigone, 1122, 148-154, 1121 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

21. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 300-304, 385-395, 211 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

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

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.
23. 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.
24. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.52

25. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 474.15-474.16

26. Orphic Hymns., Hymni, 45.2, 52.1



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agave Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
aither,zeus identified with Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
ananke(necessity) Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
anger (orgē) Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
anthropomorphism,conflation/split of divine image with cosmic principle Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
anthropomorphism,dual cosmic/anthropomorphic divinity in bacchae Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
antigone Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
antithesis Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
aphrodite,confession of phaedra in hippolytus and Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
aphrodite,dual anthropomorphic and cosmic nature of Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
apollo,apollonian,apolline Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
aristophanes Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
artemis Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 156
athens,athenian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
bacchants,bacchae,bacchai Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 359
bacchic,bacchios,baccheios βάκχιος,βακχεῖος Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352
bacchus,bacchius Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 352, 359, 362
bacchus,βάκχος Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 273
bacchus Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
berezan Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
charlatans Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
chorus χορός,choral Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 273, 359
chthonic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352, 362
classical Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
comedy Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
creon Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
cult,cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
dance,dancing,ecstatic,frenzied,maenadic,orgiastic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
death associated with dionysos and dionysian cult or myth Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
dionysos,awakening Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359, 362
dionysos,dionysos bacchas Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
dionysos,dionysos baccheios Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 273, 352
dionysos,dionysos baccheus Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273, 352
dionysos,dionysos bacchios Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 273, 352
dionysos,dionysos bacchos Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 273, 352
dionysos,dionysos bromios Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 362
dionysos,dionysos elelichthon Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
dionysos,dionysos mainomenos Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352
dionysos,epiphany Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
dionysos Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 273, 352, 359, 362; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
dionysus Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
divination Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
ecstasy ἔκστασις,ecstatic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273, 352, 359
elegy Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
epigram Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
fear Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
female Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
festival,festivity,festive Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
flute Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
frenzy,frenzied Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352
great dionysia,city dionysia Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
hera Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359, 362
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
hipponion Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
homer Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
initiate Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
kadmos,kadmeian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359, 362
kithairon Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
lampon Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
lloyd,michael Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
lyric Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
madness Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352
maenads,maenadic,maenadism,rites/cults Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352, 359, 362
maenads,maenadic,maenadism Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352, 359, 362
magos Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
male Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
mania μανία,maniacal Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352, 359, 362
murder,murderous Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
mysteries,mystery cults,bacchic,dionysiac Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352
mystic,mystical Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
necessity,zeus and Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
night,nocturnal Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
nous (mind) Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
oedipus Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
olbia/pontic olbia,olbian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
olympus,olympian,god Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
orphism,orphic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
oxymora Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 156
pelinna Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
pentheus Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359, 362; Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
pericles Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
philosophy Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
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
polis Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
poseidon Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
possession,possessed Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
procession Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
proitids Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 153
prophet,prophetic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359, 362
prophet Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
rite,ritual,maenadic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352, 359, 362
rite,ritual Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352, 359, 362
satyr drama,satyr-play Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
segal,c. p. Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144, 153
semele Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149, 156
socrates Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
sophism dual anthropomorphic/cosmic nature of divinity in Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
sophism of teiresias in bacchae Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144, 149
sparagmos Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 153, 156
sparagmós σπαραγμός Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359
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 Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 359, 362; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
temple Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
theages of regium Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
thebes,theban Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273, 362
thebes Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
thiasos θίασος Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
tragedy,tragic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41, 273, 352
tragedy Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
violence/violent Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352, 359
war Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
wine Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 41
woman Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 352, 359
women Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
worship Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
worshippers' Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 273
xenophanes Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149
zeus as father of dionysus Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149, 153
zeus lightning bolt of Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 156
zeus necessity and Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 149