Bacchae scholarship

Alexander F. Garvie - Tragedians & Tiresias

Tragedians treat Tiresias with great respect, and those who question his wisdom tend to regret it

Alexander F. Garvie - Dionysus

The god who throughout the play promises joy will at the end produce only suffering and horror

Roisman - Pentheus

He has enough of the positive in him to arouse our sympathy when he is torn to pieces

Morales - Pentheus

The feminization of Pentheus is indicative of his downfall

Goldhill - Dionysus

He is a figure who confuses the boundaries of who we are. He is human and god. Male and female.

Mills - Pentheus and Dionysus

Pentheus is manipulated into the mistake of believing that he is dealing with an equal