In his play "Bacchae," Euripides chooses as his central figure
the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast,
between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so
doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the
social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself
rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' "Bacchae" builds
gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to
the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and
theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac
poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that
can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.
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