Bacchae

• Dionysus prologue: “i have stung them into a frenzy, making them leave their homes” ”Pentheus, who now fights with gods- with me!” 
• Cadmus worshipping Dionysus: “we must honour him as much as we are abe” “i do not scorn the gods, since i am mortal myself”
• Tiresias, worship of the traditional gods is good: “no logic will overthrow the traditions we have received from our fathers” 
• Pentheus believes the bacchants are having sex: “they put Aphrodite before the Bacchic god” 
• Pentheus seems preoccupied with Dionysus’ description: “magical enchanter… his blonde hair smelling of perfume, his cheeks flushed with the charms of Aphrodite in his eyes”
• Pentheus wants to kill Dionysus: “cutting his head from his body!” 
• Pentheus disrespects Tiresias and Cadmus: “an utter laughing-stock” “so empty-headed at your age” 
• Pentheus threatens Tiresias’ seat: “the seat where he practises his prophecy! Lever it up with crowbars and turn it upside down!” 
• Chorus state that traditional Greek values are good: “the life of peace and good sense stays unshaken, holds houses together” 
• Chorus bash Pentheus for his hubris: “wisdom is not cleverness, or ideas beyond moral limits” 
• Dionysus captured: “we have captured the prey you sent us after” 
• Bacchants set free: “skipping away to the mountain glades” 
• Divinity of Dionysus in Thebes: “this man who has come to Thebes is full of miracles” 
• Pentheus comments on Dionysus’ attractiveness: “you are not bad-looking- to women” 
• Dionysus tempts Pentheus with the knowledge of the rites: “it is not permitted for you to hear; but it is worth knowing” 
• Pentheus threatening Dionysus during agon: “first i will cut off your lovely curls” “locked up and guarded inside” 
• Pentheus and Dionysus Agon both threats: “you will pay for the penalty of your vile cleverness!” “You will pay for your ignorance and irreverence to the god!” 
• Dionysus reminds Pentheus of his mortality, ignorance and youth: “you do not know what your life is, nor what you ar doing, nor who you are” 
• Pentheus assets his lineage: “i am Pentheus, son of agave and my father Echion!” 
• Chorus foretell Pentheus’ palace destroyed: “the palace of Pentheus will be shaken apart and collapse 
• Dionysus destroyed the palace: “attacking the palace and has turned it upside down” 
• Dionysus as a protector to the Bacchants: “who would look after me, if you were come to harm?” 
• Dionysus used magic to replace himself with a bull: “he found a bull in the stables” 
• Pentheus’ hubris: “though only a man he dared to fight against a god” 
• Dionysus is calm: “stand still, calm down and relax” 
• Messenger fearful of Pentheus’ rage: “i fear the swiftness of your moods, lord, and your temper, which is excessively kinglike” 
• Messenger tells of the bacchants: “first their let their hair down to their shoulders” “held a fawn in their arms, or the wild cubs of wolves, and they gave them white milk” “struck her staff against the ground… the god sent up a spring of wine” “we ran away and escaped being torn apart by the bacchants” 
• Strength of the bacchants: “pulling apart a… heifer with her bare hands and others tearing fully grown cows to pieces” 
• Bacchants causing chaos in the villages: “they fell like enemies on the villages” “”they turned everything upside down” “snatched children from their homes” “carried fire in their hair without it burning them” 
• reversal of gender roles: “women overcoming men” 
• Pentheus wants to kill the women: “i will sacrifice a great slaughter of women” 
• Chorus scared of Pentheus’ anger: “i am afraid to speak freely before the king” 
• Dionysus offers to help Pentheus: “my friend, it is still possible to put this right” 
• Pentheus listening to Dionysus: “lead on as fast as you can: i am chafing at your delay!” “You are right again. How clever you are- and have been all along!” 
• Pentheus cross-dressing: “change from a man to a woman?” 
• Dionysus’ plan: “the man is moving into the net” “punished by death” “put his out of his mind, sending a lightheaded madness” “i want him to be laughed at by the Thebans” “slaughtered by the hands of his mother”
• Pentheus’ visions: “two suns” “like a bull” “horns seem to have grown from your head”
• Pentheus under Dionysus’ control: “here, you arrange it: i am in your hands now” 
• Dramatic irony before Pentheus leaves: “someone else will bring you back…” my mother!” “… as an example to all” “that is why i am going” “you will be carried back…” “such luxury!” “…in the arms of your mother” “you insist on spoiling me!” “Such spoiling” “i take what i deserve” 
• Pentheus’ death: “take pity on me, mother, and do not kill me, your son, for my mistakes!” “Tearing his flesh” “Pentheus screaming as long as he still had breath”