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Modern scholarship on Greek theatre - Coggle Diagram
Modern scholarship on Greek theatre
Chorus
Agave anagnorisis "One of the most hard and harrowing scenes"
Bacchae
"chorus' ecstatic joy=chilling, heightens pathos for circumstance of Pentheus' destruction" (Wyles)
"no parents can sympathise with Agave" (Roisman)
Oedipus
GARVIE
"Oedipus doesn't fall: set out to uncover truth+succeeds"
"Fate + Oedipus' own character = fall"
GOLDHILL
"Oedipus=paradox in himself (saviour+monster)" (Dual determination)
DODDS
"human happiness=built on an illusion" (Message)
FAGLES
Oedipus is "his own desroyer"
Dionysus
FOLEY
"director who constructs own play within play"
Plutarch "nothing to do with Dionysus"
Tiresias
"Knows truth but determined to suppress it." (Garvie)
"Physically blind but knows truth" (Garvie)
"tragedians usually treat Tiresias with great respect, characters who question his wisdom regret it" (Garvie)
"proponents of reason began to challenge authority of spiritual power" (Higgins, Oedipus)
Dionysus
"god who throughout play promises joy will at end produce only suffering+horror" (Garvie)
"May very well be wearing smiling mask" (Morwood)
Pentheus
"seeking without conscious knowledge to see+know secrets forbidden to him in domain of the mother" (Zetlin)
"Iconolastic" (Lennard)