Dionysus theomachos? Echoes of the Bacchae in 3 Maccabees
3 Maccabees demonstrates some suggestive affinities with Euripides’ Bacchae. The protagonists of both works are kings who become theomachoi. Pentheus and Ptolemy IV Philopator rashly attempt to spy on things that they ought not, and each suffers for his repeated hybris. Each king also attempts to ki...
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Peeters
2001
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Biblica
Year: 2001, Volume: 82, Issue: 4, Pages: 539-548 |
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