Bakkhai :: Classics

Bakkhai- Pentheus did not die within the house alone his remains be takeninside at the end- Bacchic leaping is the imitation of nymphs, Pans, sileni andsatyrs a form of mimesis- Dance as an aid to the spectators and bright clarificationcomplex metres of danced choral lyric vs. simple rhythms of sunglyrics, suggesting this complexness with its resolutions, contractionsand shifting rhythms, was first disgustede possible by the interpretative great power of dance- After Pentheus has departed for the mountains, the mood of thepersecuted Lydian Bacchants is one of vengeance//strophe-refrain-antistrophe-refrain-epode- terminate calls for Justice to kill Pentheus, and the epode calls uponDionysus to manifest himself in his true form strophe visualizes motion-picture show on Mount Citihaeron, while antistrophe is a credo of the let loose- possessive metre is dochmiac (short long long short long), a metreassociated with brilliant excitement- Strophe and antistrophe can be described in four plyments movewithin A from Pentheus to the vision of Agave, and within her fromPentheus to the vision of the chorus correspondences are mimeticallyprecise1. Lines 1-5 Strophe evokes the hounds of Madness running to theBacchants in the mountain and biting Pentheus Pentheus in female garbstarts to spy. Antistrophe evokes Pentheus going to the Bacchants onthe mountain with a mad resolve, the madman attempts the impossible.The movement depicts running, the Bacchic orgy, and Pentheussmadness.2. Lines 6-8 Strophe represents Pentheus being seen by Agave.Antistrophe is syntactically obscure but is concerned with the idea ofdivine punishment. The movement represents a human being watched bysomeone stronger than a human, and the charge shifts from watched towatcher.3. Lines 7-9 Strophe represents in direct speech the shout of Agavethat someone has came. Antistrophe represents creed of the chorus Ireject rationality. I enjoy in the hunt. Other, greater, clearerthings This is a exist ence declamation about something seen, and thegestural action is deictic.4. Lines 10-12 Strophe, Agave pronounces this is no human but is of alion or a Gorgon. In antistrophe, the chorus finish that they willreject an unjust way of life and reverence the gods. The focus shiftsfrom what is seem in the vision common humanity is contrasted withthe divine or demonic- There is no way that an audience could grasp the intend symmetrywithout the medium of dance, which generalizes the concrete narrativeof the strophe and concretizes the abstract lang of the antistrophe in company to draw action and thought togetherIdea of illusion privileged/outside* Tragic process puts continual pressure on the go about of themasculine self in order to bring out that insistent pressure on