Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae

Light shelf wear. Otherwise, a very clean and straight copy. Clean text and an uncreased spine.

From Publisher:

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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0691101353

ISBN-13: 9780691101354

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Year: 1982

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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