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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.

Bacchantes in literature --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Mythology, Greek --- Bacchantes dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Mythologie grecque --- Drama --- Théâtre --- Euripides. --- Dionysus --- Pentheus, --- In literature --- Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature --- Pentheus (Greek mythology) in literature --- Tragedy --- Euripides --- Euripide --- Bacchantes dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Théâtre --- In literature. --- Dionysos (Divinite grecque) dans la litterature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Achelous. --- Actaeon. --- Amphitryon. --- Anaxagoras. --- Anthesteria. --- Archelaus of Macedon. --- Artemis. --- Bacchylides. --- Cronos. --- Demeter. --- Democritus. --- Dionysiac poetics. --- Dithyrambus. --- Echidna. --- Evil Mother. --- Golden Age. --- Heracles. --- Heraclitus. --- Icarius. --- Iophon. --- Macedon. --- Melanthus. --- adolescence. --- agriculture. --- anagnorisis. --- boundaries. --- brochos. --- cannibalism. --- carnival. --- catharsis. --- chthonic. --- culture-hero. --- doubling. --- enclosure. --- epiphany. --- flight. --- forest. --- gates. --- hair. --- hands. --- hunt. --- kentron. --- kingship, sacred. --- landscape. --- libation. --- liminal. --- loom. --- male womb. --- metamorphosis. --- mountain. --- myth. --- narthex. --- nature. --- Bacchus --- Bakchos --- Dionís --- Dionisas --- Dioniso --- Dionīss --- Dionisu --- Dioniz --- Dionizi --- Dionizo --- Dionizos --- Dionüszosz --- Dionysos --- Dionýzos --- Diyonizosse --- Διόνυσος --- Дионис --- ديونيسوس --- 디오니소스 --- דיוניסוס --- ディオニューソス --- 狄俄倪索斯 --- Βάκχος --- Діоніс