Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Euripides, Bacchae, 424-431
μισεῖ δʼ ᾧ μὴ ταῦτα μέλει goddess who nourishes youths. To the blessed and to the less fortunate, he gives an equal pleasure from wine that banishes grief. He hates the one who does not care about this:
κατὰ φάος νύκτας τε φίλας to lead a happy life by day and friendly Because the Dionysiac ἱερά take place νύκτωρ τὰ πολλά (486) Dodds, ad loc. night and to keep his wise mind and intellect away from over-curious men.
εὐαίωνα διαζῆν to lead a happy life by day and friendly Because the Dionysiac ἱερά take place νύκτωρ τὰ πολλά (486) Dodds, ad loc. night and to keep his wise mind and intellect away from over-curious men.
σοφὰν δʼ ἀπέχειν πραπίδα φρένα τε to lead a happy life by day and friendly Because the Dionysiac ἱερά take place νύκτωρ τὰ πολλά (486) Dodds, ad loc. night and to keep his wise mind and intellect away from over-curious men.
περισσῶν παρὰ φωτῶν· to lead a happy life by day and friendly Because the Dionysiac ἱερά take place νύκτωρ τὰ πολλά (486) Dodds, ad loc. night and to keep his wise mind and intellect away from over-curious men.
nan to lead a happy life by day and friendly Because the Dionysiac ἱερά take place νύκτωρ τὰ πολλά (486) Dodds, ad loc. night and to keep his wise mind and intellect away from over-curious men.
τὸ πλῆθος ὅ τι What the common people think and adopt, that would I accept. Enter a servant Servant
τὸ φαυλότερον ἐνόμισε χρῆταί What the common people think and adopt, that would I accept. Enter a servant Servant

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1. Euripides, Bacchae, 116-118, 1185, 119, 196, 214-227, 260-264, 268-271, 309-310, 330-423, 425-431, 435-469, 55-57, 810, 941-948, 997-998, 115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 115. Βρόμιος ὅστις ἄγῃ θιάσουσ— 115. whoever leads the sacred band is Bromius—to the mountain, to the mountain, where the crowd of women waits, goaded away from their weaving by Dionysus. Choru

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
anger (orgē)	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
antithesis	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
aristophanes	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
bacchus	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
blasphemy	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236, 237
dionysus	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
dyssebeia	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
dyssebes phren	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 237
enlightenment,politics and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 158
euripides	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
fear	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
hymn,to hosia	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 237
kakos,thinking evil thoughts/badly	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 237
madness	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236, 237
mystery cults,dionysian	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236, 237
noos/nous,seat of purity/impurity,in the bacchae	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
pentheus	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236, 237
phren/phrenes,seat of purity/impurity,in the bacchae	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236, 237
rituals,bacchic	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236, 237
secret/secrecy	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
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, 158
sophronein/sophrosyne,in the bacchae	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 237
teiresias	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236, 237
thebes	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
theomachos'	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 236
war	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221
women	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 221