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Euripides, Bacchae, 415


ἐκεῖ δὲ Πόθος· ἐκεῖ δὲ βάκχαις lawful for the Bacchae to celebrate their rites. Choru


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1. 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.
2. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 1313 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

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

605. Βάκχαις Δελφίσιν ἐμπρέπων
4. Euripides, Bacchae, 1029, 1089, 1093, 1124, 1131, 1145, 115, 1153, 116, 1160, 1168, 117-118, 1189, 119, 1224, 129, 1387, 152-153, 169, 195-196, 216, 218, 225, 259-264, 268-271, 330-414, 416-431, 434-469, 491, 499, 51, 529-530, 578, 605, 62, 623, 632, 664, 67-68, 690, 735, 759, 779, 785, 791, 799, 810, 83, 837, 842, 847, 915, 940-948, 987, 997-998, 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
5. Euripides, Cyclops, 156, 38, 446, 64, 709, 72, 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
6. Euripides, Hecuba, 121, 1076 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1076. ποῖ πᾷ φέρομαι τέκν' ἔρημα λιπὼν
7. Euripides, Helen, 543 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

543. οὐχ ὡς δρομαία πῶλος ἢ Βάκχη θεοῦ
8. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 1119 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1119. I will explain, if you are no longer mad as a fiend of hell. Heracle
9. Euripides, Hippolytus, 560, 551 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

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

550. Didst thou in days gone by come to the Pythian rock? Xuthu
11. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 953, 164 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

12. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1489 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

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

972. As under far Pangaion Orpheus lies
14. 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 ;
15. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

253a. they seek after information themselves, and when they search eagerly within themselves to find the nature of their god, they are successful, because they have been compelled to keep their eyes fixed upon the god, and as they reach and grasp him by memory they are inspired and receive from him character and habits, so far as it is possible for a man to have part in God. Now they consider the beloved the cause of all this, so they love him more than before, and if they draw the waters of their inspiration from Zeus, like the bacchantes, they pour it out upon the beloved and make him, so far as possible, like their god.
16. Sophocles, Antigone, 154, 1122 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

17. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 211 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

18. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.52 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

19. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.1596-4.1715, 7.643-7.651 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

20. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 474.15-474.16

21. Orphic Hymns., Hymni, 52.5, 52.7



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
anger (orgē) Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 221
antithesis Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 221
apollo, apollonian, apolline Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
aristophanes Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 74
bacchants, bacchae, bacchai Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
bacchus, bacchius Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
bacchus, βάκχος Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
bacchus Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 221
berezan Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
blasphemy Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236, 237
chorus χορός, choral Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
classical Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
comedy Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
dionysos, dionysos baccheios Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
dionysos, dionysos bacchios Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
dionysos, dionysos bacchos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
dionysos, dionysos bromios Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
dionysos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
dionysus Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 221; Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 129
dyssebeia Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236
dyssebes phren Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 237
elegy Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
epigram Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
euripides Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 74
fear Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 221
helios Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 129
hipponion Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
hymn, to hosia Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 237
kakos, thinking evil thoughts/badly Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 237
lyric Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
madness Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236, 237
magic Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 129
mysteries Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 129
mystery cults, dionysian Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236, 237
noos/nous, seat of purity/impurity, in the bacchae Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236
olbia/pontic olbia, olbian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
orphism, orphic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
pentheus Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 221; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236, 237
philosophy Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in the bacchae Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236, 237
rituals, bacchic Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236, 237
satyr drama, satyr-play Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
secret/secrecy Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 74
sophronein/sophrosyne, in the bacchae Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 237
teiresias Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236, 237
thebes Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236
theomachos Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 236
tragedy, tragic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
war Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 221
wine' Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 129
wine Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 41
women Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 221