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 inClassical Greek Models of the Gospels and Acts p. 125
Main Author Michael Kochenash
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published 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
ISBN:9781946230188
1946230189