Everything Bacchae!!

• When was the Bacchae written?

  405 BC (5th Century BC)
• Who wrote the Bacchae?

  Euripides
• Where did the Bacchae come in the City of Dionysia?

  First prize!
• "They hurled stones


  ...at him with great force" (Messenger)
• "Fir branches were


  ...thrown at him like branches" (Messenger)
• "She put her foot against the wretched


  ...mans ribs and tore his shoulder out of its socket" (Messenger)
• "His poor head found its


  ...way into his mothers hands, she fixed it on the point of a Thyrsus" (Messenger)
• "But you punish


  ...too severely" (Cadmus)
• "Why you could

  ...be one of Cadmus' daughters" (Dionysus)
• "This is a clever

  ...trick to make me want to hear more" (Pentheus)
• "To honour this new

  ...God Dionysus - whoever he is" (Pentheus)
• "I am ashamed Grandfather


  ...to see you so empty heade at your age" (Pentheus)
• "There is some Zeus


  ...over there who fathers new Gods?" (Pentheus)
• "He is the one claiming

  ...to be the God Dionysus" (Pentheus)
• "Do such outrageous


  ...acts not deserve death by hanging" (Pentheus)
• "I have been away from

  ...this land but hear of new evils in the city" (Pentheus)
• "Speak! You will not be harmed


  ...by me, no matter what: for one should not be angry with the innocent" (Pentheus)
• "He hurled the headband


  ...away from his hair so that poor Agave would recognise him and not kill him" (Messenger)
• "Mother, I am your son,


  ...Pentheus...take pity on me, mother, and do not kill me, your son, for my mistakes" (Pentheus in the Messengers speech)
• "Now I seem to see two

  ...suns, and a double city of Thebes" (Pentheus)
• "I will go, Either I will

  ...go under arms, or I will follow your advice" (Pentheus)
• "Dionysus who has appeared to

  ...mankind as a God, is the son of my daughter, we must honour him as much as we are able" (Cadmus)
• "That is why the God joined


  ...you all together in the same suffering, you and your sisters" (Cadmus)
• "Tell a lie in

  ...a good cause: say that he is Semele's son" (Cadmus)
• "My mothers sisters,


  ...the last people that should have done so" (Dionysus)
• "Io! Io! Again I

  ...cry! I, the son of Semele, son of Zeus!" (Dionysus)
• "Stretch out your arms, Agave


  ...and you, her sisters, daughters of Cadmus! I am bringing this young man to his great trial!" (Dionysus)
• "Women, I bring you the man who

  ...makes a mockery of you and me and my rites! Now take vengance on him!" (Dionysus)
• "I must vindicate


  ...my mother Semele" (Dionysus)
• "Semele, the daughter

  of Cadmus, gave birth to me" (Dionysus)
• "I am Dionysus,

  ...son of Zeus" (Dionysus)
• "The undying crime


  ...of Hera against my mother" (Dionysus)
• "Agave spoke out:

  ...'come , stand in a circle and take hold of the trunk'" (Messenger)
• "His mother was


  ...the first to start the killing" (Messenger)
• "Those still at large

  ...I will hunt from the mountains" (Pentheus)
• "To honour this

  ....new God Dionysus - whoever he is" (Pentheus)
• "I will put a stop to him pounding

  ...his thrysus and tossing his hair - by cutting his head from his body!" (Pentheus)
• "You who wish to

  ...spy on your mother and her companions"
• "Crown yourself

  ...with ivy!" (Chorus)
• "I have stung


  ...them into a frenzy" (Chorus)