#The bacchae

[benvoolioo]

hey girl, um, we were having a bacchanal and we kinda tore your boyfriend to shreds. yeah, ripped his head clean off. sorry about that :/

#has this been done already? #the bacchae #tagamemnon #euripides #dionysos #greek theatre #greek tragedy #the secret history #classics #classical studies

[bugcowboyart]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility— I wanted to celebrate by putting these two together in one post!

I’m a proud trans artist and I love celebrating trans people in my art!

#tdov #trans art #tdov 2023 #t4t #trans artist #the bacchae #dionysian #satyrs #maenads #red figure pottery #ancient greek inspired #bacchante

[sundroplyre]

"I say the god [Dionysus] does not discriminate young dancers from old, that he craves honor from one and all alike, that no one - no one - is excluded from his worship."

- Euripides, "The Bacchae", translated by Herbert Golder

#dionysus worship #dionysos deity #dionysus #dionysus god #the bacchae #quote

[orpheuslament]

hey girl we took your boyfriend to mount cithareon. we convinced him to cross-dress & infiltrate the bacchae. the maenads got him. yeah they tore him to shreds. im so sorry

#tagamemnon #is this anything #the bacchae #dante.txt

[nyuiarantes]

Silly little Dionysus :)

(Pentheus is all over the floor)

#ancient greece #greek mythology art #greek gods #mythology #dionysus #the bacchae #pentheus #my art #doodle #mythology art #dionysos #dionisio

[fruitjuucy]

“There is no cure for madness when the cure itself is mad” | Illustration for Euripides’ The Bacchae

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#there’s a version of this with text not sure if ill post it #but it’s essentially a poster/cover design #illustration #artists on tumblr #art #book illustration #the bacchae #greek mythology #dionysus #my art

[tractym]

redraw of this vase

#the bacchae #bakkhai #pentheus #maenad #greek myth #greek mythology #art tag #artistic nudity

[agnesandhilda]

I bring a bacchic revelry sort of vibe to thebes that pentheus doesn't really like

#bolo liveblogs #tagamemnon #the bacchae

[turquoisemagpie]

“We hope you’re enjoying the party…”

#magpie sketches #dionysus #the bacchae #greek mythology #artists on tumblr

[illustratus]

Pentheus Pursued by the Maenads by Charles Gleyre

#pentheus #maenads #greek mythology #art #charles gleyre #tragedy #ancient greek #ancient greece #dionysus #euripides #the bacchae #thebes #king #mythology #mythological #europe #european #history

[queenghostieart]

Bacchic Frenzy

I have NO idea why I never posted this piece. It’s over a year old by now, and I still quite like it! So here’s my favourite guy

#art #drawing #artists on tumblr #dionysus #dionysos #greek myth art #greek gods #ancient greece #the bacchae #bacchus #mythology #greek mythology

[hellenicrisis]

"And when the weaving Fates fulfilled the time, the bull-horned god was born of Zeus. In joy he crowned his son, set serpents on his head – wherefrom, in piety, descends to us the Maenad's writhing crown, her chevelure of snakes."

– Euripides, The Bacchae

#🏛🕯 #devotional post #dionysus #pagan #the bacchae #hellenic pagan #dionysus worship #paganism #hellenic paganism #helpol #hellenic polytheism #polytheism #hellenic polythiest #polytheist #dionysos #dionysos worship #euripides

[thegodwhocums]

Bull-god, drunk god, god of women and transvestites, giver of ecstasy, master of dance, lord of the emotions—such were the various masks worn by the daimon whose lineage went back to ancient Minoan civilization. In his myths and rituals, Dionysos embodied both a feeling for the living continuities of nature and a concept of the human personality as an organism deeply rooted in the nonrational forces of the cosmos. Serving as the focus for the spiritual needs of Greece's underclasses, he became the god that the patriarchal establishment could neither accept nor eliminate. And so Dionysos represented the return of the repressed in several senses: return of the religious needs of the lower classes, return of the demands of the nonrational part of the self, and return of the Minoan feeling for the living unity of nature. And so in turn he threatened several repressors: the aristocracy of well-to-do male citizens, the domination of intellect over emotion, the alienated ethos of the city-state.

Arthur Evans, “The God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysos,” 1988

#Dionysos #euripides #the bacchae #books #Arthur Evans #liberation #epithets

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

Ok, but make it mythical:

Dionysus as a little fae child in the wilderness vs Dionysus after beheading Pentheus.

Medusa in her priestess attire vs all snakey

Odysseus

Demeter hopeful and pregnant vs the raging crone of winter

Paris holding staring sadly at the shepherd’s crook he’s about to leave behind vs Paris staring in horror at the arrow he’s just pulled from Achilles’ heart.

Callisto vs. a glorious fat happy bear

Aphrodite fresh from the ocean, tasting an apple for the first time vs Aphrodite spattered in blood and wishing she could get rid of the golden apple that so many Trojan lives

Little Achilles smiling with his arm around Pat vs ✨ the rage ✨

Hestia with a single flame on the tip of one of her fingers like a match in the dark from inside Kronos’s innards vs Hestia getting to tend a whole alter fire for herself.

Narcissus before and after — you could do something clever with the pool

Nervous Icarus trying on his wings vs sopping wet, hair smoking, tarred and feathered trashcan of a lad giving himself a big grin and a thumbs up

#who really loves me #greek mythology #dionysus #dionysus deity #euripedes #the bacchae #the greek gods #Icarus #Achilles #achilles and patroclus #Demeter #callisto #Callisto and Artemis #medusa #before and after #glow up #aphrodite #the trojan war #art prompts #Greek mythology art

[nyuiarantes]

"And you seem to lead me, being like a bull and horns seem to grow on your head" - The Bacchae

#greek mythology #dionysus #mythology #greek mythology art #greek gods #ancient greece #dionysos #dionisio #dioniso #the bacchae #my art

[fruitjuucy]

Pentheus and the Maenads

Scene from Euripides’ The Bacchae

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#men looking pathetic in distressing situations is becoming a theme in my art i think #that’s fun #the reference for this looks kooky crazy btw #the bacchae #dionysus #illustration #book illustration #Greek mythology #Euripides #bacchus #maenadic #historical illustration #art #my art #artists on tumblr #original art