Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae, Expanded Edition

442 Pages·1997·7.08 MB·English

by  Charles Segal

Dionysiac Poetics
and Euripides' Bacchae
EXPANDED EDITION

Dionysiac
Poetics
and
Euripides'
Bacchae
EXPANDED EDITION
CHARLES
SEGAL
Princeton University
Press
Princeton, New Jersey
Copyright © 1982 by Princeton University Press
Preface to the Expanded Edition
and Afterword copyright © 1997
by Princeton University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Segal, Charles, 1936-
Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae. Expanded edition.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Euripides. Bacchae. I. Title.
PA3973.B2S56 882'.01 82-47612
ISBN 0-691-01597-X AACR2
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Contents
PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED EDITION ix
PREFACE xiii
ABBREVIATIONS xvii
INTRODUCTION 3
1 The Elusive God 7
2 Forms of Dionysus:
Doubling, Hunting, Rituals 27
3 Dionysus and Civilization:
Tools, Agriculture, Music 55
4 The Horizontal Axis:
House, City, Mountain 78
5 The Vertical Axis:
Earth, Air, Water, Fire 125
6 Arms and the Man:
Sex Roles and Rites of Passage 158
7 Metatragedy:
Art, Illusion, Imitation 215
8 The Crisis of Symbols:
Language, Myth, Tragedy 272
9 Dionysiac Poetics and Euripidean Tragedy 339
AFTERWORD 349
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 395
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ADDENDA 405
INDEX 413