The Real Meaning of “The Bacchae” by Euripides – Discourses on Minerva

In this episode of Literary Tales we explore and examine Euripides’ most famous play The Bacchae and understand its real meaning: Euripides’ sacrilegious attitude to the gods and his expose of the dangerous gods of the ancient Greeks. It is not a play about “fun loving” Dionysus and “tyrannical” Pentheus but of power and power, the danger of Dionysus, and the degradation of human civilization at the hands of the old gods.

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Hesiod, Paul Krause in real life, is the editor of VoegelinView and a writer on art, culture, literature, politics, and religion for numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the author of The Odyssey of Love and the Politics of Plato, and a contributor to the College Lecture Today and the forthcoming book Diseases, Disasters, and Political Theory. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy and theology (biblical & religious studies) from the University of Buckingham and Yale, and a bachelor’s degree in economics, history, and philosophy from Baldwin Wallace University.

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