DOIAbstract
An analysis of Euripides' Bacchae in terms of its significant themes and images shows that it can be read as a poetic statement of the tensions between individuals and groups. Dionysus and Pentheus confront one another as cousins, but also as group-leaders, Dionysus of his sacred thiasos, Pentheus as political head of Thèbes. The conflict ends disastrously for all parties : Pentheus loses his and his life ; Dionysus loses his votaries' respect for and even credence in his godhead ; Cadmus and Agave suffer total political and social alienation, and must go into exile as part of a roving band of marauders.Fodlecki A. J. Individual and Group in Euripides' Bacchae. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 43, fasc. 1, 1974. pp. 143-165
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