Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae

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Author

Charles Segal

Publication

1982 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

91,000 words, Guess

Page Count

364 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL3506433M
ISBN-100691065284
OCLC Control Number8346745
OCLC Control Numberdionysiacpoetics0000sega
Library of Congress Control Number82047612

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LibraryThing1183604
Goodreads887530

Classifications

DDC882/.01
LCCPA3973.B2 S56 1982

Description

Includes afterword (p.349-393) by the author: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the light of Recent Scholarship

First Sentence

Nietzsche's basic insight about Greek tragedy, despite exaggeration, contains much truth.

Description

In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.