Lecture 5: Outline

Bacchae (576-861)

1. More miracles and their significance.

2. Dionysus as animal, human, and air.

3. The messenger’s report, or the many faces of the maenads: the Bacchae at rest, with animals, performing miracles, turned murderous.

4. The self as other: Pentheus as a maenad.

5. The usefulness of madness.