2011
DOI: 10.1163/156852511x505024
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Perspectives on Violence in Euripides’ Bacchae

Abstract: This paper examines the treatment of violence in Euripides' Bacchae, particularly in spoken narrative. Bacchae is essentially a drama about violence, and the messenger-speeches establish a dialectic between spectacle and suffering as different conceptions of, and reactions to, violence. The ironic deployment of imagery and allusion, particularly concerning Pentheus' body and head, presents violence as ambiguous. The exodos then provides a model of compassion, in which knowledge of guilt does not preclude sympa… Show more

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“…272 Weaver 2009. 273 As Seaford (2001) and Perris (2011) identify, 'the change (to violence) occurs because they are attacked' (Seaford, 2001: 205). The violence and resulting death exist as a retaliation to male invasion, and this further complicates the gender antagonism in this play.…”
Section: Euripides' Bacchaementioning
confidence: 99%
“…272 Weaver 2009. 273 As Seaford (2001) and Perris (2011) identify, 'the change (to violence) occurs because they are attacked' (Seaford, 2001: 205). The violence and resulting death exist as a retaliation to male invasion, and this further complicates the gender antagonism in this play.…”
Section: Euripides' Bacchaementioning
confidence: 99%