scholarship

• Edith Hall: "Dionysus is the most terrifying godhead"
• BERND SEIDENSTICKER: "The most vexing game of cat and mouse"
• BERND SEIDENSTICKER : "one of the most comic scenes of Greek tragedy is at the same time one of the most gruesome and pitiful"
• Robert Parker: “Dionysus Bacchius had to be a stranger because the ecstatic irresponsibility that he offered to women was unique in Greek Religion”
• Bernard Knox: "loss of individuality in communal dance"
• Thucydides on Pericles funeral oration: "our government does not copy our neighbour's, ours is an example"
• Thucydides: "we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year"
• Pericles : "future generations will marvel at us, as the present marvels at us now"
• Edith Hall: " equivalence between attending Pnyx and Theatre of Dionysus in Athens