HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Euripides, Hubris, Maenad
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Miracles 2 and 3: dionysus creates an earthquake and escapes from jail. Pentheus tried to humiliate dionysus by jailing him, dionysus humiliates pentheus by thwarting his plans. D says p"s downfall comes from his own desires. He can appear as a mortal stranger, a bull, and gleaming air. Dionysus can make a phantom of himself out of air. Zeus once did the same when he made a dummy dionysus for hera. Maenads were at rest, deep sleep of exhaustion. they are portraying values in the mountains that they are supposed to be showing in the city; they are modest and sober. Maenads lived with the animals and mothered the animals. They breastfed baby wolves instead of their own babies. This is where animals and humans are equated. The animals and women are in harmony; they run together. They used their thyrsus to turn solids into liquid.
