#euripides bacchae

[hearts-entwine]

#last year i wrote the most unhinged essay on this play for my classics exam #the bacchae my beloved #the bacchae #euripides #euripides bacchae #greek mythology #dionysus #the secret history

[fdelopera]

screaming forever about the relationship between Dionysos and Pentheus in Euripides' Bacchae ... and how Dionysos tried to tell Pentheus who he was (queer, containing multitudes) ... and how Pentheus ran in fear from these realizations ... but in running, in not embracing who he was, he became a monstrous version of what he feared (dressed as a maenad, torn to pieces)......

and then screaming forever at how this esoteric knowledge about *self* was so important that it was codified throughout the Greek speaking world, so that even the "Gnostic" Gospel of Thomas contains this line, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you".

yeah. just screaming forever.

#no you don't understand how influential the bacchae was... #like there's a very good case to be made that jesus in the gospel of john is based on dionysos in euripdes' bacchae #also lazarus was jesus' boyfriend ... and mary magdalene was probably lazarus' sister (she and 'martha' are likely the same person in john) #and jesus was kind of dating both of them at different times #dionysos was so queer ... and so was jesus y'all ... i don't make the rules #anyway this has been a ramble #ancient greek theatre meta #euripides 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

[terpsikeraunos]

λέγουσι δ᾽ ὥς τις εἰσελήλυθε ξένος, γόης ἐπῳδὸς Λυδίας ἀπὸ χθονός, ξανθοῖσι βοστρύχοισιν εὐοσμῶν κόμην, οἰνῶπας ὄσσοις χάριτας Ἀφροδίτης ἔχων... - And they say that some foreigner has arrived, a sorcerer, an enchanter from the land of Lydia, with sweet-smelling hair in tawny curls, the wine-dark charms of Aphrodite in his eyes...

Euripides, Bacchae 233-236

#ancient greek #my translation #bacchae #euripides #dionysus

[swallowtail-ageha]

Bacchae, Euripides

#tagamemnon #bacchae #euripides #dionysus #pentheus #dionysos

[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

[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

[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

[finelythreadedsky]

greek tragedy is like. if you put on clothes you are doomed. if you take off clothes you are doomed. good luck.

#thinking specifically of euripides' heracles and suppliants and bacchae for the former #and aeschylus' agamemnon and libation bearers are my go-tos for the latter #clytemnestra bares her breast hoping it's going to save her but it is in fact what seals her fate #would have to check polyxena's death narration in euripides' hecuba but i believe it's one or the other of these as well #also yael farber's haunted oresteia boots. love those. nobody even wears them and they are so haunted. #mine #bodycostume

[tenthmuseondine]

this is all I ever think about actually!

#the bacchae #dionysus #euripides #I MEAN to spoil you

[zaireetoo-draws]

Been thinking about the Bacchae again

#artists on tumblr #art #original art #illustration #mythology #greek mythology #greek gods #greek mythos #dionysus #bacchae #pentheus #euripides

[winedarkgod]

Dionysus in the Bacchae:

#dionysus #dionysos #memes #the bacchae #euripides #bakkhai #rip pentheus

[tractym]

Agave!

#agave #the bacchae #greek mythology #greek myth #euripides #art tag #artistic nudity

[kebriones]

Agave with Pentheus' Head (From Euripides' Bacchae)

#tagamemnon #the bacchae #gore #pentheus #euripides #art #η κυρα αγαυη :D

[orpheuslament]

descriptions of dionysos in the bakkhai (tr. anne carson) that make me lose my mind a little

#the bakkhai #bakkhai #the bacchae #dyonisus #euripides #anne carson #dante.jpg