Euripides' Bacchae

Orgy and Agony

by

Dr. Donald Huber

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The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA

 

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Contents

1. Title page

2. Euripides, 480 - 406 B.C.

3. Greece and Asia Minor

4. Relief of Euripides, Stage and Dionysus, from Smyrna

5. The Theatre at Delphi

6. Athenian red figure vase and Pronomos vase from S. Haly

7. Greek Skepticism

8. Dionysus, Red figure vase, Athens

9. Birth of Dionysus

10. Dionysus, as a bull, rescues Semele

11. Dionysus, as a bull, rescues Semele

12. Hermes and Baby Dionysus

13. The Journey of Dionysus

14. Dionysus, Attic red figure

15. 5th c. B.C. relief

16. Poppy Crowned Idol, Crete

17. Silenus treading grapes

18. Silenus treading grapes, cont.

19. Maenad

20. Maenad, Attic red figure vase

21. Maenads beating tambourine, Attic red figure vase

22. Maenads dancing and playing the flute, Attic red figure vase

23. Terra-cotta relief from a Roman building

24. Dancing women on an Attic stamnos

25. The Bacchae

26. Ritual Spargamos, Red figure pyxis

27. Spargamos Omophagy

28. Dewey Chafin, elder of the Church of the Lord Jesus

29. Gracie McCallister, from the Church of the Lord Jesus

30. Tim McCoy, swirling with tambourine

31. Tim McCoy, swirling with tambourine, The Bacchae

32. Jimi Hendrix

33. Reveller and girl

34. Athenian red figure vase,
Triptolemos painter

35. Dionysus from Herculaneum, Italy

36. Classic komos of men dressed as women, on an Attic krater

37. Death of Pentheus, Attic red figure cup

38. Death of Pentheus

39. Apollo and Dionysus shaking hands

40. The Bacchae (1178-79)