The sources of Bacchae

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bacchae 1 source

the oracle of Zeus

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1. Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 1 citation

   letter 74

   The image of Pentheus torn apart by Maenads directly alludes to the myth dramatized in Euripides's Bacchae.

   that, in the manner of Pentheus, certain real Maenads, demons, have torn her apart.

2. Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 refuted 1 citation

   protrepticus

   Clement quotes the reveler's line, echoing Euripides' Bacchae, and addresses its character Teiresias to reject 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;

3. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 1

   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;