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Euripides, Bacchae, 734-746


nanabandoning the ambush where I had hidden myself. But she cried out: O my fleet hounds, we are hunted by these men; but follow me! follow armed with your thyrsoi in your hands! We fled and escaped


βακχῶν σπαραγμόν, αἳ δὲ νεμομέναις χλόηνfrom being torn apart by the Bacchae, but they, with unarmed hands, sprang on the heifers browsing the grass. and you might see one rending asunder a fatted lowing calf, while others tore apart cows.


μόσχοις ἐπῆλθον χειρὸς ἀσιδήρου μέτα.from being torn apart by the Bacchae, but they, with unarmed hands, sprang on the heifers browsing the grass. and you might see one rending asunder a fatted lowing calf, while others tore apart cows.


καὶ τὴν μὲν ἂν προσεῖδες εὔθηλον πόρινfrom being torn apart by the Bacchae, but they, with unarmed hands, sprang on the heifers browsing the grass. and you might see one rending asunder a fatted lowing calf, while others tore apart cows.


μυκωμένην ἔχουσαν ἐν χεροῖν δίχαfrom being torn apart by the Bacchae, but they, with unarmed hands, sprang on the heifers browsing the grass. and you might see one rending asunder a fatted lowing calf, while others tore apart cows.


ἄλλαι δὲ δαμάλας διεφόρουν σπαράγμασιν.from being torn apart by the Bacchae, but they, with unarmed hands, sprang on the heifers browsing the grass. and you might see one rending asunder a fatted lowing calf, while others tore apart cows.


εἶδες δʼ ἂν ἢ πλεύρʼ ἢ δίχηλον ἔμβασινYou might see ribs or cloven hooves tossed here and there; caught in the trees they dripped, dabbled in gore. Bulls who before were fierce, and showed their fury with their horns, stumbled to the ground


ῥιπτόμενʼ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω· κρεμαστὰ δὲYou might see ribs or cloven hooves tossed here and there; caught in the trees they dripped, dabbled in gore. Bulls who before were fierce, and showed their fury with their horns, stumbled to the ground


ἔσταζʼ ὑπʼ ἐλάταις ἀναπεφυρμένʼ αἵματι.You might see ribs or cloven hooves tossed here and there; caught in the trees they dripped, dabbled in gore. Bulls who before were fierce, and showed their fury with their horns, stumbled to the ground


ταῦροι δʼ ὑβρισταὶ κἀς κέρας θυμούμενοιYou might see ribs or cloven hooves tossed here and there; caught in the trees they dripped, dabbled in gore. Bulls who before were fierce, and showed their fury with their horns, stumbled to the ground


τὸ πρόσθεν ἐσφάλλοντο πρὸς γαῖαν δέμαςYou might see ribs or cloven hooves tossed here and there; caught in the trees they dripped, dabbled in gore. Bulls who before were fierce, and showed their fury with their horns, stumbled to the ground


μυριάσι χειρῶν ἀγόμενοι νεανίδων.dragged down by countless young hands. The garment of flesh was torn apart faster then you could blink your royal eyes. And like birds raised in their course, they proceeded along the level plains, which by the streams of the Asopu


θᾶσσον δὲ διεφοροῦντο σαρκὸς ἐνδυτὰdragged down by countless young hands. The garment of flesh was torn apart faster then you could blink your royal eyes. And like birds raised in their course, they proceeded along the level plains, which by the streams of the Asopu


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1. Homer, Iliad, 6.130-6.140 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

6.130. /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. 6.131. /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. 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. 6.133. /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. 6.134. /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. 6.135. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.136. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.137. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.138. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.139. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.140. /and he lived not for long, seeing that he was hated of all the immortal gods. So would not I be minded to fight against the blessed gods. But if thou art of men, who eat the fruit of the field, draw nigh, that thou mayest the sooner enter the toils of destruction. Then spake to him the glorious son of Hippolochus:
2. Anacreon, Fragments, 357 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Anacreon, Fragments, 357 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 985-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1000. εὐπέταλος ἕλικι θάλλει.
5. Euripides, Bacchae, 1000-1009, 101, 1010-1019, 102, 1020-1023, 1025-1026, 1029, 103, 1030-1039, 104, 1040, 1043-1049, 105, 1050-1059, 106, 1060-1069, 107, 1070-1079, 108, 1080-1089, 109, 1090-1099, 110, 1100-1109, 111, 1110-1119, 112, 1120-1129, 113, 1130-1139, 114, 1140-1149, 115, 1150-1152, 116-123, 1233, 124-166, 31-40, 443-450, 453-459, 576-639, 64, 640-647, 65, 652, 66, 667, 67, 677-679, 68, 680-689, 69, 690-699, 70, 700-709, 71, 710-719, 72, 720-729, 73, 730-733, 735-739, 74, 740-749, 75, 750-759, 76, 760-769, 77, 770-774, 78-91, 918-919, 92, 920-929, 93, 930-939, 94, 940-949, 95, 950-959, 96, 960-969, 97, 970-979, 98, 980-989, 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
6. Sophocles, Antigone, 1116-1152, 1115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. 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.
8. Plutarch, Camillus, 5.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5.2. From the sacred rites used in the worship of this goddess, she might be held to be almost identical with Leucothea. The women bring a serving-maid into the sanctuary and beat her with rods, then drive her forth again; they embrace their nephews and nieces in preference to their own children; and their conduct at the sacrifice resembles that of the nurses of Dionysus, or that of Ino under the afflictions put upon her by her husband’s concubine. After his vows, Camillus invaded the country of the Faliscans and conquered them in a great battle, together with the Capenates who came up to their aid.
9. Augustine, The City of God, 7.21 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

7.21. Now as to the rites of Liber, whom they have set over liquid seeds, and therefore not only over the liquors of fruits, among which wine holds, so to speak, the primacy, but also over the seeds of animals:- as to these rites, I am unwilling to undertake to show to what excess of turpitude they had reached, because that would entail a lengthened discourse, though I am not unwilling to do so as a demonstration of the proud stupidity of those who practise them. Among other rites which I am compelled from the greatness of their number to omit, Varro says that in Italy, at the places where roads crossed each other the rites of Liber were celebrated with such unrestrained turpitude, that the private parts of a man were worshipped in his honor. Nor was this abomination transacted in secret that some regard at least might be paid to modesty, but was openly and wantonly displayed. For during the festival of Liber this obscene member, placed on a car, was carried with great honor, first over the crossroads in the country, and then into the city. But in the town of Lavinium a whole month was devoted to Liber alone, during the days of which all the people gave themselves up to the must dissolute conversation, until that member had been carried through the forum and brought to rest in its own place; on which unseemly member it was necessary that the most honorable matron should place a wreath in the presence of all the people. Thus, forsooth, was the god Liber to be appeased in order to the growth of seeds. Thus was enchantment to be driven away from fields, even by a matron's being compelled to do in public what not even a harlot ought to be permitted to do in a theatre, if there were matrons among the spectators. For these reasons, then, Saturn alone was not believed to be sufficient for seeds - namely, that the impure mind might find occasions for multiplying the gods; and that, being righteously abandoned to uncleanness by the one true God, and being prostituted to the worship of many false gods, through an avidity for ever greater and greater uncleanness, it should call these sacrilegious rites sacred things, and should abandon itself to be violated and polluted by crowds of foul demons.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agave Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 177; Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
anti-hero,dionysus Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
ares,ares enyalios Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
arrival Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
athena,athena pallas Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
athena Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 169
athens,athenian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
bacchants,bacchae,bacchai Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161, 177
bacchants Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28
bacchic rites,slaves involved in Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 242
bacchus/dionysus Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 242
bull Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177; Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
butes Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
cattle Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
chorus,in drama Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
cithaeron Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
cult,cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
dance,dancing,ecstatic,frenzied,maenadic,orgiastic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 177
detractors Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
dionysia,great and rural (festivals) Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
dionysos,arrival Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
dionysos,awakening Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
dionysos,dionysos as bull Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
dionysos,dionysos as goat Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
dionysos,dionysos bromios Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
dionysos,nurse of Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 161
dionysos,punishment Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161, 177
dionysos Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 161, 177
dionysus Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28
dismemberment Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 161, 177
ecstasy ἔκστασις,ecstatic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161, 177
euripides Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28
fire Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
frenzy,frenzied Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
goat,dionysos as Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
goat Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
great mother Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
greek literature and practice,bacchic rites Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 242
hellenistic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
heracles Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
hero Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
initiate Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
ino Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
iobacchoi Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
ivy Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161, 177
lion Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 177
lycurgus Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
maenad-nymphs Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
maenads,maenadic,maenadism,rites/cults Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161, 177
maenads,maenadic,maenadism Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 161, 177
maenads Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28; Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
magnesia,magnesian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
male Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
melitaia Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
messenger Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
miracles Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
myth,mythical Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 161, 177
naiades Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
nymph Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
nysa,nyseion Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
orphism,orphic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
ox-goad βουπλήξ Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
pallas Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
pelinna Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
pentheus Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 177
possession,dionysiac Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27
pottery Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
procession Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
punishment Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161, 177
religion,dionysiac Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28
religion,feminine ritual language Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28
religion,relationships with gods Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28
religion Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28
rite,ritual,maenadic Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161, 177
rite,ritual Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 177
ritual Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 27, 28
rome,roman Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 161
sacrifice,sacrificial Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
semele Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
sheep Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
slaves Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 28
snakes Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
sparagmos Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112; Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 169
sparagmós σπαραγμός Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
tambourine Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
thebes,theban Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 161
thebes (boeotia) Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
thessaly,thessalian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
thiasos θίασος Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
thracia,thracian Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
thunder,thunderbolt Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
thyrsus θύρσος Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
torch,torchlight Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
trance Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
vases Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 177
versnel,h. s. Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 169
violence/violent Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
woman Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141, 161, 177
women Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 112
worship' Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141
zeus Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 141