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MISCELLANEA EURIPIDES BACCHAE 1064-9: DIONYSUS, THE WHEEL AND THE LATHE In Euripides’ Bacchae we are informed twice about what happens on Mount Cithaeron. In the third episode a messenger reports what he has seen there to Pentheus, who is con rmed in his idea that serious action has to be taken immediately. The messenger’s report of the king’s terri- ble destiny caused by the ‘Stranger’, whose identity till then has been evi- dent for everyone but for Pentheus himself, covers the fth episode. It forms a tragedy in itself with the action developing in ve epeisodia (arrival at Mount Cithaeron, Dionysus—Pentheus, Pentheus—Maenads, Pentheus— Agaue, diasparagmos ) with an internal peripeteia , when Pentheus is about to be murdered by his mother, and with a surrealistic exodos of the Maenads led by Agaue holding up victoriously the head of her son as a trophy, as the public will soon see her on the stage. The messenger succeeds in mak- ing the presence of Dionysus felt throughout the passage, but his narra- tive’s vivacity reaches a rst climax when he tells us how Dionysus prepared the downfall of the tragic king. Two lines are enough for the
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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