My Intro to Literature class explored how a disconnect from nature leads to existential anguish while opening themselves up to nature provides spiritual nourishment.
Tag Archives: Bacchae
Sexual Misconduct in the Classics
A sexual misconduct course required of all employees got me thinking of problematic situations in the books that I teach.
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Hydrocarbons Unleash an Angry God
Euripides’ “The Bacchae” can be read as a parable of climate change denialism.
Female Freedom Drives Right Crazy
Euripides “The Bacchae” well describes rightwing legislators obsessed with abortion.
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JFK as Ancient Greek Hero
Ancient Greek literature provides us with a power lens through which to examine the John F. Kennedy assassination.
A Cancer Patient Reads “The Bacchae”
One of my students, suffering from cancer, has an exciting interpretation of Euripides’ “The Bacchae.”
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GOP vs. Women = Pentheus vs. Bacchae
Euripides helps understand the right wing’s attack on women’s reproductive rights.
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At 60, a Comfortable Old Scarecrow
Having just turned 60, I’ve been thinking of Teiresias. Wise though the blind seer may be, his advice doesn’t help others that much. Aging, in other words, appears to require humility.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aging, Carl Jung, Euripides, Homer, Odyssey, Oedipus, Sophocles, T. S. Eliot, Wasteland Comments closed
