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Religious acts and rtituals - Coggle Diagram
Religious acts and rtituals
Oedipus
Pollution
The idea that certain actions led to people becoming polluted
This pollution had to be cleansed through Worship
Oedipus himself was polluted through murdering laius
Oedipus brings pollution to Thebes, in the form of the plague , and must leave thebes to riod the pollution
Bacchae
Bacchic worship
Pentheus refuses to accept this
This is what leads to his downfall
This would have beeen seen as unacceptable in Greek times, as he is preventing religious acts, which were more imortant than belief
the central question of the bacchae is what happens during bacchic worship
The messanger presents it as opposing normal life and disrupting theban society
Women are snatching babies
women are abandonin their positions in the house
Tiresias believes women are havin sex
the chorus emphasise the joyful nature of their worship
the messanger also tells us of their acttivities that led to pentheus' death, which is a negative presentation
Scholars
Mills - Pentheus sees dionysus reliion as fake
Greek society
Greek religion focused on acts more than belief