The Scandal of Gentile Inclusion Reading Acts 17 with Euripides’ Bacchae
Euripides’ tragic play the Bacchae was written the same year the playwright died, near the end of the fifth century BCE. It was first performed after his death at the Athenian Theater of Dionysus, on the Acropolis, during the spring festival honoring Dionysus in 401 BCE. The tragic storyline driving...
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Published in | Classical Greek Models of the Gospels and Acts p. 125 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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Claremont Press
03.01.2018
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Summary: | Euripides’ tragic play the Bacchae was written the same year the playwright died, near the end of the fifth century BCE. It was first performed after his death at the Athenian Theater of Dionysus, on the Acropolis, during the spring festival honoring Dionysus in 401 BCE. The tragic storyline driving the narrative centers on Dionysus’s divine conception—he was fathered by Zeus—and the revenge he exacts upon his unbelieving cousin and aunts. The narrative framework within which this tragedy unfolds is most relevant here: Dionysus introducing his cult to the inhabitants of Thebes. In the Bacchae, the king of |
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ISBN: | 9781946230188 1946230189 |