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Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics - A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs (Hardcover)
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Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics - A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs (Hardcover)
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This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and
Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their
contemporary social and political context and explores their impact
on the audiences of the time. Both were composed during a crucial
period of Athenian political life following the oligarchic seizure
of power in 411 BC and the restoration of democracy in 410 BC, and
were in all likelihood produced nearly simultaneously a few months
before the rise of the Thirty Tyrants and the ensuing civil war.
They also demonstrate significant similarities that are
particularly notable among extant Attic theatre productions,
including the role of the god Dionysos as protagonist and architect
of religious and political action, and the presence of Demetrian
and Dionysiac mystic choruses as proponents of the appeasement of
civil discord as the cure for Athens' ills. Focusing on the mystic,
civic and political content of both Bacchae and Frogs, this volume
offers not only a new reading of the plays, but also an
interdisciplinary perspective on the special characteristics of
mystery cults in Athens in their political context and the nature
of theatrical audiences and their reaction to mystic themes. Its
illumination of the function of each play at a pivotal moment in
fifth-century Athenian politics will be of value to scholars and
students of ancient Greek drama, religion and history.
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