EURIPIDES’ BACCHAE IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The Limits of Dionysiac Liberation in Euripides' Bacchae

Scholars have frequently observed that Dionysus is a god who breaks down barriers (of gender, class, social norms, et cetera). This is true in Euripides's Bacchae to a certain extent, and the play's breakdown of the divide between male/female and Greek/foreign has been well examined in scholarship. However, the limitations of this questioning of boundaries are much less discussed. For instance,...

Bioethics: using its historical and social context.

English syntax in its linguistic and socio - historical context

At the end of the twentieth century , the Late Modern period still had to be described as ‘the Cinderella of English historical linguistic study’ (Jones 1989 : 279). Fortunately, this scenario has changed over the last fi fteen years or so. Among other things, the change of emphasis within historical linguistics to socio-historical and corpus-based approaches led to a surge of interest in Late ...

These Women Murder : Sexual Politics in Sade and “ The

Often called the most “modern” of the great classical tragedians, Euripides is a figure of some ambivalence, and his final play, The Bacchae confirms the ambiguities—as well as the power—of Euripidean drama. This paper examines the dynamics of gender and sexual politics in late classical Greece via The Bacchae. After an analysis of the play in its social and historical context, attention will t...

Value-Oriented Policy Taking and Contextual Architecture in Historical Context

Today, the field-oriented architecture of the historical context of the most important topics in the field of architecture Because of the inherent value and practical concepts and is directly related to the knowledge, awareness and decision-making at the individual or individuals. No matter how much knowledge is more valuable than the deeper, more complete and more accurate will be extracted ...