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01-01-2002, 10:11 AM
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HW: that sounds a great deal like a baccanalia... (spelling off)
The women on the religion in Greece would do pretty much the same thing. Anyone remember the name of the play about the woman who kills her own peeping tom spy? |
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01-02-2002, 03:11 AM
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Yeah, I noticed the resemblance with Bacchanalia right away.
Bacchae by euripedes has the queen of Sparta killing her own son as a peeping Tom |
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01-02-2002, 07:44 AM
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Thanks, hw...
It had been a long day, and I completely forgot...  hope all is well with you and yours--- |
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01-11-2002, 03:45 PM
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The saturnalia (and the feast of fools AND the carnival)had undoubtedly a function of blowing off steam, by upsetting the "natural order", by permitting license the better to surpress it before and after.
But the basic sense of the Saturnalia was as a recreating of the Golden Age, dethroning Jupiter and freeing his deposed father Saturn as ruler of the world again, as he was at the beginning of time, before he was deposed, and man began his decline through the Silver , Bronze and Iron Ages. For a witty satirical piece on it, read Lucian of Samosta´s "Pros kronon" in the Loew Classics. |
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