`Εις Όρος! Планина и менадизам у Еурипидовим Бакхама
`Εις Όρος! Mountain and maenadism in Euripides’ Bacchae

Author(s): Đurđina Šijaković Maidanik
Subject(s): Ancient World, Theology and Religion, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Euripides (cca 480 – 406 B.C.); Bacchae; mountain: ὄρος; maenadism; ὀρειβασία
Summary/Abstract: This paper offers one possible reading of the tragedy: mountain is in the focus of this reading, as a (semantic) space opposed to the city, and as a space for maenadic rites. If mythical Thebes corresponds to polis contemporary to tragedy, Kithaeron is juxtaposed zone in regard to this polis, especially during maenadic ritual ascent of the mountain (ὀρειβασία). In this reading of Bacchae, the mountain proves to be a zone of wilderness and violence, a zone outside of and before social norms, a place for outsiders. At the end of the play, such a Kithaeron and Agave: polluted, exiled, transgressor and violator reflect in each other “eyes”.

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