Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' "Bacchae"
by Charles Segal
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In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, show more language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension. show lessTags
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Charles Segal is Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 882.01 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Classical Greek dramatic poetry and drama standard subdivisions; collections; history, description, critical appraisal; Specific periods Ancient period to ca. 499
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- PA3973 .B2 .S56 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Individual authors Euripedes
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