Greek Myths: Sex, Drugs & Tragedy (TRIH ep 604, part 3)
431 BCE · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Euripides' The Bacchae and the strange, violent cult of Dionysus. They open with a graphic passage describing Pentheus's dismemberment and use it to explore Dionysian rites (maenads, sparagmos, omophagia), the god's association with wine, ecstasy and the wild, and the play's staging and mask-based performance in Athenian festivals (Anthesteria, Great Dionysia).
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Around 431 BCE
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)