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Fit The Bacchae into an arc of stories which concern a similar "…

- - - - Midas has a daughter that he wants the best for. His obsession with gold is not a 1-dimensional issue, this enhances empathy for Midas.
  - - - Euripides interpretation says that crossing over into the realm of Physis was a prideful matter. There is always a god associated with Physis it seems? Mortals with Nomos?
      - Ovid's interpretation states that it was accidental the fall into physis. That Actaeon does not have control of the scenario
- - - - is the Physis to Nomos one of less complication? Moving from chaos to the ordered world?
  - - - "Take me away from here, to my sisters, the sisters of my endless exile. Let awful Cithaeron never see me again. Let me never set my eyes on Cithaeron again, and let me never see another thyrsus, to bring this back to me again" (86)
      - " I caught it by myself, this offspring of a savage lion, and with no net: look!" (73)
  - - - " I could hide. Under the pines, and watch quietly" (50)
      - " Look! What I see! I think I see two suns and Thebes, too, twice: the seven-gated fortress, twice" (58).
      - "I was in there dancing Bacchic dance, shaking my head backwards and forwards" (59).
- - - - more tyrants, strict nomos centered society?
    - - In the metamorphoses version of Greek stories, the tragedies that befall the mortals are a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, accidental. Fate. The gods are simultaneously portrayed as more cruel.
    - - Enlightenment era valued emotions, the value of community, nature, what is natural.