Bacchae
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 1 citation
Reference to Pentheus torn by Maenads directly alludes to the myth dramatized by Euripides.
that, in the manner of Pentheus, certain real Maenads, demons, have torn her apart.
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in the voice of a drunken reveler
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 refuted 1 citation
Quotes the reveler's Bacchae-echoing line to stage the rejection of pagan frenzy.
"And truly I seem to see two suns and a double Thebes," said one as he revelled to the idols, drunk with unmingled ignorance;
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation
The Bacchae's central myth of Pentheus torn apart is invoked, though not named as Euripides' play explicitly in this paragraph, as the vehicle for the simile of divided philosophy.
Truth, then, being one (for falsehood has ten thousand byways), the schools of philosophy, both the barbarian and the Greek, like the Bacchae tearing apart the limbs of Pentheus, each boasts of the part it has obtained as though it were the whole truth;
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