Tag Archives: Bacchae

Florida School Pulls Paradise Lost

A Florida County has pulled “Paradise Lost” from the shelves. It’s true that the work has “sexual content.”

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Philosophy Discusses Fearless Speech

Foucault uses Euripides to describe what the Greeks meant by “fearless speech.” Such speech is important is standing up to authoritarians today.

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Ukraine Must Unite Athena with Poseidon

The ancient myth about Athena and Poseidon, historian Snyder argues, captures what Ukraine needs today in its battle with Russia.

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Desire vs. Law in Shakespeare, Euripides

If a play turns comic or tragic often depends how how the clash between law and desire is negotiated.

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Kavanaugh-Pentheus vs. Angry Women

Euripides’s “Bacchae” gives us good insights into Kavanaugh’s alcohol consumption and his relation with women.

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Euripides’s Attack on Authoritarianism

It’s possible to read “The Bacchae” as a critique of the autocrats who hijacked Athenian democracy and were running Athens into the ground.

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Nature Lit Has Healed for Centuries

For years my Intro to Lit class has had a nature theme.

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Handmaid’s Emmy, A Sign of Its Urgency

The Emmys signaled that “Handmaid’s Tale” is as relevant as ever as America’s misogyny deepens. So is Euripides’s “The Bacchae.”

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Calling Out Trump’s Assault on Nature

Look to Euripides’s “The Bacchae” if you want to know how a divine seer would call out Donald Trump for his assault on the environment. Teiresias says that Pentheus is “possessed by madness so perverse, no drug can cure.”

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