Bacchae

• "You punish too severely!"

  • cadmus at dionysus
• "It is not right that gods should resemble mortals in their passions."

  • cadmus at dionysus
• "Women, I bring you the man who makes a mockery of you and of me and my rites! Now take vengeance on him!"

  • dionysus at the maenads
• "You are a man to inspire terror, great terror!"

  • dionysus at pentheus
  • a cautionary tale
• "I am in your hands."

  • pentheus at dionysus
  • greek word - anakeimestha - suggests this to mean as a sacrifice
• "Divine power is certain. It corrects mortals who worship arrogance and do not revere the divine."

  • chorus
• "Would you like to see them sitting together on the mountains?"

  "Very much! I would give countless piles of gold for it."

  • dionysus and pentheus
  • pentheus' thirst for knowledge
• "Then you must clothe your body in a linen dress."

  • dionysus at pentheus
  • the switch from suggestions to orders
  • shift in power
• "...women overcoming men! Some god must've been there."

  • messenger about maenads
  • ideas about women - can only be stronger than men with divine aid
• "I fear the swiftness of your moods...and your temper which is excessively kinglike."

  • messenger at pentheus
  • pentheus tyrannical traits
• "Who would look after me if you were to come to harm?"

  • chorus at dionysus
• "Burn the house of Pentheus!"

  • dionysus
  • foreshadowing, pentheus family soon to be in ruins
• "You are well named for disaster."

  • dionysus at pentheus
  • penthos - meaning pain or grief
• "Seize him! He is mocking me and thebes!"

  • pentheus about dionysus
  • wounded pride
  • contrast to when Di says a similar thing to maenads
• "That is a clever trick, to make me want to hear!"

  • pentheus at dionysus
• "Tell a lie in good cause...and honour may come to our whole family."

  • cadmus at pentheus
• "...cutting his head from his body,"

  "...death by hanging"

  "...punished by stoning."

  • pentheus on how he will punish Dionysus
  • inconsistent and aggressive, indicative of tyranny?
• "Women who have a sense of right will not be corrupted."

  • tiresias about the women of thebes
  • attitudes towards women
• "You do not shame Phoebus with your words."

  • chorus about tiresias
  • contrasting what pentheus says
• "to the gods it is poured as libation, so through Dionysus people may have good fortune."

  • tiresias on dionysus
• "You want to bring this new god to mankind so you can make more money from augury and sacrifices."

  • pentheus at tiresias
  • sophistry
• "the mother of Actaeon - Autonoe, I mean,"

  • pentheus when talking about maenads
  • attitudes to women
• "This is why I have stung them into a frenzy."

  • Dionysus on his aunts' treatment of semele
• "When I have put things right here."

  • dionysus on his plans for thebes