Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae /

Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae /

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Author / Creator:	Segal, Charles, 1936-2002
Edition:	Expanded ed.
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
Description:	xviii, 420 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Euripides. -- Bacchae. Dionysus -- (Greek deity) Euripides. Pentheus, -- King of Thebes (Mythological character) Bacchae (Euripides) Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature. Pentheus (Greek mythology) in literature. Bacchantes in literature. Tragedy. Bacchantes in literature. Literature. Tragedy. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2905429

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ISBN:	069101597X (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-411) and index.
Summary:	Includes afterword (p. 349-393) by the author: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the light of recent scholarship.

Table of Contents:

1. The Elusive God
2. Forms of Dionysus: Doubling, Hunting, Rituals
3. Dionysus and Civilization: Tools, Agriculture, Music
4. The Horizontal Axis: House, City, Mountain
5. The Vertical Axis: Earth, Air, Water, Fire
6. Arms and the Man: Sex Roles and Rites of Passage
7. Metatragedy: Art, Illusion, Imitation
8. The Crisis of Symbols: Language, Myth, Tragedy
9. Dionysiac Poetics and Euripidean Tragedy.