‘Scholars have frequently observed that Dionysus is a god who beats down barriers (of gender, class, social norms, etc.) (Bacchae)
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‘The political question that emerges most insistently in this play is whom to trust’ (Frogs)
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‘Frogs… is also a document from which we can infer Athenian attitudes to tragedy' (Frogs)
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‘Maenads do not simply defy gender roles they upend the normative paradigm that restricts women to domesticity and threatens chaos to the polis’ (Bacchae)
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‘A note of solemn warning… is meant to be heard throughout the drama’ (Oedipus)
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‘Basically peaceful and friendly women become violent killers under the god’s influence’ (Bacchae)
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‘Frogs was written and produced at a time of extreme uncertainty’ (Frogs)
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The chorus' madness is the 'positive ritual experience of identification with the god' whereas the madness of the Theban women is a 'painful affliction' (Bacchae)
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‘Sophocles conceived doomed Oedipus, the greatest sufferer of the Greek stage, as a pattern of nobility, destined to error and misery, despite his wisdom’ (Oedipus)
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• ‘It’s mixture of slapstick, nonsense and more serious political, cultural and moral insights, has proved a perennial favourite’ (Frogs)
