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Euripides, Bacchae, 800-809


ἀπόρῳ γε τῷδε συμπεπλέγμεθα ξένῳThis stranger with whom I am locked together is impossible, and neither suffering nor doing will he be quiet. Dionysu


ὃς οὔτε πάσχων οὔτε δρῶν σιγήσεται. ΔιόνυσοςThis stranger with whom I am locked together is impossible, and neither suffering nor doing will he be quiet. Dionysu


ὦ τᾶν, ἔτʼ ἔστιν εὖ καταστῆσαι τάδε. ΠενθεύςMy friend, there is still opportunity to arrange these things well. Pentheu


τί δρῶντα; δουλεύοντα δουλείαις ἐμαῖς; ΔιόνυσοςDoing what? Being a slave to my slaves? Dionysu


ἐγὼ γυναῖκας δεῦρʼ ὅπλων ἄξω δίχα. ΠενθεύςWithout weapons I will bring the women here. Pentheu


οἴμοι· τόδʼ ἤδη δόλιον ἔς με μηχανᾷ. ΔιόνυσοςAlas! You are contriving this as a trick against me. Dionysu


ποῖόν τι, σῷσαί σʼ εἰ θέλω τέχναις ἐμαῖς; ΠενθεύςPENTHEUS: You have combined with them to form this plot, that your revels may on for ever. DIONYSUS: Nay, but this is the compact I made with the god; be sure of that. PENTHEUS: Preparing to start forth Bring forth my arms. Not another word from thee! DIONYSUS: Ha! wouldst thou see them seated on the hills? PENTHEUS: Of all things, yes! I would give untold sums for that. DIONYSUS: Why this sudden, strong desire? PENTHEUS: 'Twill be a bitter sight, if I find them drunk with wine. DIONYSUS: And would that be a pleasant sight which will prove bitter to thee? PENTHEUS: Believe me, yes! beneath the fir-trees as I sit in silence. DIONYSUS: Nay, they will track thee, though thou come secretly.


ποῖόν τι, σῷσαί σʼ εἰ θέλω τέχναις ἐμαῖς; ΠενθεύςWhat sort, if I wish to save you by my contrivances? Pentheu


ξυνέθεσθε κοινῇ τάδʼ, ἵνα βακχεύητʼ ἀεί. ΔιόνυσοςYou have devised this together, so that you may have your revelry forever. Dionysu


καὶ μὴν ξυνεθέμην—τοῦτό γʼ ἔστι—τῷ θεῷ. ΠενθεύςI certainly did—that is so—with the god. Pentheu


ἐκφέρετέ μοι δεῦρʼ ὅπλα, σὺ δὲ παῦσαι λέγων. ΔιόνυσοςTo a servant Bring me my armor. To Dionysus And you, stop speaking. Dionysu


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

13 results
1. Homer, Odyssey, 9.270-9.271, 17.483-17.487 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

2. Homeric Hymns, To Demeter, 80 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)

80. But by your beams through the extremity
3. Aristophanes, Clouds, 604-606, 603 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

603. Παρνασσίαν θ' ὃς κατέχων
4. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 135-145, 134 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

134. καί ς' ὦ νεανίσχ' ὅστις εἶ, κατ' Αἰσχύλον
5. Euripides, Bacchae, 1001-1023, 1047, 1059, 1063, 1077, 1099, 1118-1121, 1150-1152, 1159, 1170-1171, 1185-1187, 1212-1215, 1278, 1293, 172, 186-190, 233-238, 247, 263, 272-327, 330-342, 352, 389-392, 434-491, 493-494, 498-502, 506-507, 511-514, 518, 576-656, 664-671, 676-799, 801-861, 918-922, 935-938, 977-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1000. παρακόπῳ τε λήματι στέλλεται 1000. and mad disposition violently to overcome by force what is invincible—death is the discipline for his purposes, accepting no excuses when the affairs of the gods are concerned; to act like a mortal—this is a life that is free from pain. The text and meaning of these and the following lines are highly uncertain. The above translation is based on the paraphrase that Murray includes in his apparatus qui iniuste etc. (v. 997), ei sententiarum castigatrix in rebus divinis indeprecabilis Mors est .
6. Euripides, Ion, 714-720, 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.
7. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 1244, 1243 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 227-228, 40, 226 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Sophocles, Antigone, 1127-1130, 962, 1126 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 26.4 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

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

12. Plutarch, Pericles, 37 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

13. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.19.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5.19.6. Polyneices, the son of Oedipus, has fallen on his knee, and Eteocles, the other son of Oedipus, is rushing on him. Behind Polyneices stands a woman with teeth as cruel as those of a beast, and her fingernails are bent like talons. An inscription by her calls her Doom, implying that Polyneices has been carried off by fate, and that Eteocles fully deserved his end. Dionysus is lying down in a cave, a bearded figure holding a golden cup, and clad in a tunic reaching to the feet. Around him are vines, apple-trees and pomegranate-trees.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeschylus, aeschylean (dionysiac) tetralogies/plays Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
aeschylus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 49
agathon Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24
agave Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 75, 126
alterity/otherness Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 172
archaic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
aristophanes Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 172
assimilation Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
athens, athenian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
cadmus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 92
captivity/imprisonment/enslavement Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24
chorus (male, female), of a. bassarae or bassarides Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
chorus χορός, choral Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
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
classical Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
colloquialisms Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126
comedy Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
concepts/values/beliefs Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
cult, cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302, 321
cult/ritual/worship Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 26, 92, 129
delphi Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126
dionysos, dionysos xenos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302, 321
dionysos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302, 321
dionysus, anthropomorphism of Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
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) 24, 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
ecstasy/ecstasis Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
ecstasy ἔκστασις, ecstatic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
eleusis, eleusinian, mysteries Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
eleusis, eleusinian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
epic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
eros, bacchants, obsession of pentheus with sexual impropriety of Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 172, 175
euripides, bacchae Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 49, 75, 129
euripides Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 92, 126, 129
hallucination/delusion Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49, 92
homeric Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
homeric hymns, to dionysus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
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
initiate Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
initiation, initiatory rites Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
interrogation (-scene) Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 26
lycurgus, and pentheus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 26, 92
lycurgus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
lydia, lydian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
madness (mania)/frenzy Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49, 92
maenads/maenadism Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26, 49, 75, 129
magic, magical Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
mania μανία, maniacal Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
mantis Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
messengers/messenger-speech Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126, 129
mnesilochus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24
mysteries, mystery cults, bacchic, dionysiac Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
mystery Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
mystes μύστης Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
mystic, mystical Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302, 321
mystic initiation Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26
on stage Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 49
orpheus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 49
otherness/alterity Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 172
papyrus-text Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
parody Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 49
pattern (plot/thematic) Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 75
pentheus Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302, 321; Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24, 26, 49, 75, 92, 126, 129
pericles Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
physis Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 129
polis, cohesion/coherence of Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
polis Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302, 321
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
reception Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
reconciliation/convergence, of apollo and dionysus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
reconciliation/convergence, of dionysus and lycurgus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
recontextualization Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
refiguration Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 26, 49, 92
rejuvenation Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
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) 24, 26, 49, 92
resemblances, lycurgeia Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
resemblances, neaniskoi Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
resemblances, pentheus Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 75
resemblances, reception Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126, 129
resemblances, theban tetralogy Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 75
resemblances, xantriae Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 75
resemblances Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 75, 92
reversal of roles/plot Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 24
reworking Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
rite, ritual Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
sacrifice, sacrificial Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
samothrace, samothracian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
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
teiresias Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
theater, theatrical Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
thebes, theban Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
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) 24, 49, 92
theotokos (mother of god) Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 126
thiasos θίασος Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
thrace Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 92
thyrsos (–oi) Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 75, 92
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
transplantation Xanthaki-Karamanou, 'Dionysiac' Dialogues: Euripides' 'Bacchae', Aeschylus and 'Christus Patiens' (2022) 75
war pentheuss army in bacchae Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 175
winnington-ingram, r. p. Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 175
worship' Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 321
xenia Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302, 321
zeus, zeus xeinios Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302
zeus Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 302