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Euripides, Bacchae, 665


οἴστροισι λευκὸν κῶλον ἐξηκόντισανgoaded to madness have darted from this land with their fair feet, I have come to tell you and the city, lord, that they are doing terrible things, beyond marvel. I wish to hear whether I should tell you in free speech the situation there or whether I should repress my report


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1. Euripides, Bacchae, 1000-1009, 101, 1010-1019, 102, 1020-1023, 103-105, 1057, 106-114, 1150-1152, 1159, 150, 215-225, 234-236, 312-317, 389-392, 434-491, 493-494, 498-502, 506-507, 511-514, 518, 576-656, 664, 666-671, 676-861, 918-922, 977-989, 99, 990-999, 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
2. Euripides, Ion, 30 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

30. that dwell in glorious Athens, for well thou knowest Athena’s city, and take a new-born babe from out the hollow rock, his cradle and his swaddling-clothes as well, and bear him to my prophetic shrine at Delphi, and set him at the entering-in of my temple.
3. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 40 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Eratosthenes, Catasterismi, 24 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

5. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 4.3.3 (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.
6. Plutarch, Pericles, 38.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

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
aeschylus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
agave Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126
amulets Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
archaic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
argeifontes ἀργειφόντης Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
bacchants, bacchae, bacchai Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
bassaras, bassarides, bassarae Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
beaumont, lesley a. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
chorus (male, female), of a. bassarae or bassarides Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
christus patiens, a drama for reading Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
cithaeron Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126, 129
colloquialisms Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126
concepts/values/beliefs Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
crown, crowned Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
cult/ritual/worship Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26, 129
delphi Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126
dionysos, epiphany Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
dionysos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
dionysos (bacchus, god), worship by women Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
dionysus, as a bull/his bestial incarnation Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
dionysus, effeminate/effeminacy of Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
dionysus, epiphanies/theophany of Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
dionysus, illusion Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
dionysus, paradoxes/contradictions Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
dismemberment Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
ecstasy/ecstasis Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
ecstasy ἔκστασις, ecstatic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
eidinow, esther Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
euripides, bacchae Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248; Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49, 129
euripides Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126, 129
faraone, christopher a. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
festival, festivity, festive Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
hallucination/delusion Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
hamilton, richard Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
healing, purification ritual and law Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
hekate (goddess) Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
homeric, post-homeric Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
household (oikos), family piety Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
household (oikos), shrines Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
hubris Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
hēsychia/calm life/quietism Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
initiands/initiates/initiation Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
interrogation (-scene) Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
ivy Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
kyrene, purification law Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
leopard Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
lion Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
lycurgus, and pentheus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
lycurgus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
madness (mania)/frenzy Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
maenads, maenadic, maenadism, rites/cults Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
maenads, maenadic, maenadism Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
maenads/maenadism Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26, 49, 129
male Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
messengers/messenger-speech Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126, 129
metaphor, and pain Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 59
milk Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
mountains Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
mystery Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
mystic initiation Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
narthex νάρθηξ Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
nature Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
nebris νεβρίς Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
nymph Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
on stage Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
orpheus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
pardalis Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
parker, robert c. t. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
parody Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
pentheus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26, 49, 126, 129
physis Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
plutarch Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
prologue/expository opening Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126
reception, of dramatic conventions Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126, 129
refiguration Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26, 49
resemblances, bassarae/bassarides Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
resemblances, edonoi Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26, 49
resemblances, reception Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126, 129
rite, ritual, maenadic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
rite, ritual Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
skin, animal Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
sophia/sophos (wisdom) Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
sōphrosynē/sōphrōn Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
thebes Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
theologos (iohannes) Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
theomachos (–oi)/theomachia/theomachein Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
theophrastos Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
theotokos (mother of god) Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126
thyrsus θύρσος Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
torch, torchlight Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
transformation Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
transmission Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
vegetation Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
wine Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
woman Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 172
women, participation in magic Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248
women, role in religion and ritual practice' Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 248