Mac Góráin, F;
Perris, S;
(2019)
The ancient reception of Euripides’ Bacchae from Athens to Byzantium.
In: Mac Góráin, F, (ed.)
Dionysus and Rome. Religion and literature.
(pp. 39-84).
De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany.
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Abstract
This chapter offers a reception history of Euripides’ Bacchae from its original production until its intertextual transformation in the Byzantine Christus Patiens. It traces a broad arc from Classical Athens through the Roman Empire, taking in also Hellenistic Alexandria, the Greek-speaking East, Christianity, and Byzantine literature. By examining the cultural contexts and inflections of the different receptions of one poetic text - Greek, Roman and Italian, ‘Eastern’, and Christian - it exposes distinctions between religious or cultural attitudes to Bacchus/ Dionysus across a broad range of Greek and Latin sources. The discussion is divided into four thematic sections, within which receptions are mostly presented in chronological order: Classic Bacchae; Performances; Narratives; and Christian discourse. These sections encompass drama, epic, didactic, epyllion, historiography, biography, epigram, scholarly citations, and theological texts. A selection of the most significant case studies receive in-depth discussion in the body of the chapter; for completeness, the reception history of Bacchae is filled out by listing additional receptions in summary form in an appendix.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The ancient reception of Euripides’ Bacchae from Athens to Byzantium |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-11-067156-8 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110672237-002 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672237-002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Greek and Latin |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082452 |
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