QUOTES

• DIONYSUS "I have put aside my divine form"
• Thebes "first Greek city i have come to" Dionysus
• "stung them into a frenzy"

  " i have compelled them to wear the clothes of my wild rites"

  emphasis on "only women" "far from their shuttles and looms"
• "THIS CITY MUST LEARN ITS LESSON"
• "Pentheus, who now fights the gods"
• parados

  "joyful labours... work that does not weary me"

  "blessed is he who in his good fortune knows the rites of the god" like homeric hymn
• "joy of eating raw flesh" sparagmos
• tiresias

  "we two old men agreed to make ourselves a thyrsus each, put on fawnskins and garland our heads with ivy wreaths"

  Cadmus

  "i will not grow weary, it is so sweet to forget that we are old"
• "we do not hold intellectual debates on the gods"
• Pentheus

  "fake bacchic revels "

  "they put Aphrodite before the bacchic king"

  "obscene revelry"

  "magical enchanter"
• Tiresias

  "there is no other cure for pain, itself a god, to the gods it is poured as a libation"

  "in time you will see him even on the cliffs of Delphi"

  "for even in the Bacchic celebrations a woman who has sense of right will will not be corrupted"
• Pentheus

  "effeminate stranger who has brought a new disease to our women"
• chorus

  "to keep his sense and wits intact away from 'superior men',whatever simplefolk consider right and follow, that i would accept"
• "it is forbidden to tell those who are not initiated in the Bacchic ways"
• dionysus mocks fear

  "tell me what i must suffer, what terrible things will you do to me?"
• pentheus

  "he is not visible to my eyes"

  Dionysus

  "Where i am"
• Dionysus to Pentheus

  "you do not know what your life is, nor what you are doing,nor who you are"
• Dionysus

  "shake the floor of the world"

  chorus

  "can you see the... pillars flying apart"
• "women overcoming men"
• many things the gods achieve are unexpected
• you punish too severly

  "yes for i am a god and i was insulted by you"
• Cadmus "if anyone despises divinity, let him look on this man's death and believe in the gods"
• " the enemy of gods, law and justice"
• messenger "Pentheus the son of Echion is dead"

  chorus "Lord Bromios you reveal yourself as a great god"

  Messenger " Woman, are you rejoicing at my masters misfortune"
• "so as to see without being seen"
• Pentheus - "from where we are standing i cannot see these false maenads"

  "instead of seeing the maenads he was seen by them"
• bacchants "sprang off with the speed of a dove"
• Exodus

  chorus refer to Agave as "poor woman"

  Stichomythia - heightens tension for Agave' anagnorisis
• Exodus

  • Cadmus forced to become leader once again
  • "pitiful burden of Pentheus...never picking up two parts in the same place"
  • Agave - "she is not a happy sight"
  • " i have left the shuttles by my loom and have come to something greater, hunting wild animals with my bare hands"
• "stop him reporting the secret dances of the god"
• "the best advice is to know one's place and revere the divine"
• A "where did he die"

  C "where once hounds tore apart Actaeon"
• "let me go where foul Cithaeron cannot see me"