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Evaluate how much Dionysus’ punishment of the house of Cadmus is justice…
Evaluate how much Dionysus’ punishment of the house of Cadmus is justice or revenge?
revenge
Cadmus: you have punished too servely
Made Agave kill her own son.
dressed up Pentheus to humiliate him
Charles Segal
39).
In his eulogy for Pentheus, Cadmus has the role of an authoritative
magistrate or ruler, but he is in fact an aged, crushed ex-king condemned to
exile from his city. The youth whom he would praise did not fall in
honorable battle at the hands of fellow-warriors but dressed as a woman and
at the hands of women, among them his own mother.
'the man who makes a mockery of you and me and my rites!now take vengeance on him!'
Pentheus, I mean you!Come out in front of the palace and show yourself to me in the clothing of a woman, a mad woman, a bacchant.
justice
definition
just behaviour or treatment.
didn't worship Dionysus despite warning. Maybe too severe as Cadmus did warn so therefore shouldn't be punished by exile as he did nothing wrong.
DIonysus may punish out of revenge
Pentheus: ‘I have more authority than you’ - line 419
‘this new god, Dionysus - whoever he is’ - line 183
track down the effeminate foreigner, who has brought a new disease to our women
DIONYSUS: “ you will pay for your ignorance and irreverence to the god!”
he's a god and should be honoured properly
I have come, son of Zeus
revenge definition
he action of hurting or harming someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands
Craziness
makes Pentheus dress in womens clothes
makes the women of the house of cadmus crazy to follow him
PENTHEUS: “ I am quite ensnared by this impossible stranger”
was revenge because justice would only involve resolving the issue but Dionysus was excessively cruel where he needn't have been
for his mother. Bryan Heystee states Dionysus seeks to restore his
mother’s good name and establish his rites in the city of his birth.
His own family
denied that this was the moment of his birth, instead saying that it was divine retribution
for claiming to be the consort of Zeus.
repeated motif.