Bakkhai :: Classics

Bakkhai- Pentheus did not die in spite of appearance the house but his remains are takeninside at the end- Bacchic dancing is the imitation of nymphs, Pans, sileni andsatyrs a form of mimesis- Dance as an aid to the spectators and pictorial clarificationcomplex metres of danced choral lyric vs. easy rhythms of sunglyrics, suggesting this complexity with its resolutions, contractionsand shifting rhythms, was first made possible by the interpretativepower of dance- After Pentheus has departed for the mountains, the mood of thepersecuted Lydian Bacchants is one of requital//strophe-refrain-antistrophe-refrain-epode- Refrain calls for Justice to kill Pentheus, and the epode calls uponDionysus to manifest himself in his true form strophe visualizesscene on Mount Citihaeron, while antistrophe is a credo of the chorus- dominating metre is dochmiac (short long long short long), a metreassociated with intense excitement- Strophe and antistrophe can be described in four movements movewithi n A from Pentheus to the vision of century plant, 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 cloakstarts 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 interested with the idea ofdivine punishment. The movement represents a human being watched bysomeone stronger than a human, and the focus 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 public declamation abou t 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 conclude that they willreject an unjust way of life and worship 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 mean symmetrywithout the medium of dance, which generalizes the concrete narrativeof the strophe and concretizes the abstract lang of the antistrophe inorder to draw action and thought togetherIdea of illusionInside/ exterior* Tragic process puts insistent pressure on the faced of themasculine self in order to bring out that insistent pressure on