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Essay Instructions: 1.It deals with two texts.One is Sophocles'Antigone of Greek Tragedies which is translated by David Grene. The other is Euripides' The Bacchae.

2.I need two quotes from Antigone and two quotes from Bacchae(type in pages).

3.In a simultaneously amusing and eerily dreadful scene in Euripides?? The Bacchae, Pentheus, the leader of Thebes, cross-dresses (dresses like a woman) in order to infiltrate and be able to spy upon the Theban-women-turned-into-Dionysian-Maenads, who are outside of the city. The actual scene of cross-dressing takes place at lines 917-976 (pp. 195-199), but it is also prepared for between lines 787-916 (pp. 188-195).
Cross-dressing entails a crossing of boundaries and infringing upon what appear to be distinct categories and gender codes. Please write a log that analyzes the crossing of boundaries, the mixing of categories, and the collapsing of (apparent?) differences that occurs in the cross-dressing scene in The Bacchae, and use the idea of ??gender trouble?? in this scene to discuss one or more of the various other oppositions that are under examination in both this play and in Sophocles?? Antigone.

4.Analyze what happens in the cross-dressing scene in The Bacchae and what happens in the play as a result of the cross-dressing scene. Use your interpretation of this scene to

5. Develop an interpretation of another set of oppositions in both plays and how they are tested, how they may or may not break down in the course of the plays. Think about testing the claim that you made about the relationship between the opposites in the scene of cross-dressing in terms of this other set of oppositions.

6. Make a claim about what message is being sent about oppositional thinking in general in the plays.
----Family/state

----Hunter/Hunted, Sacrificer/Sacrificed

----Fathers/sons; Husbands/wives

Thank you!!

Essay Instructions: 1)How does Aeneas' detachment differ from Rama's?
2) How does Euripedes portray the realtionship between the human and divine in the Bacchae?
3) If Virgil and Aeschylus had a conersation about women, how would it go based on the Aeneid and Agamemnon?
4) How does the Ramayana portray or illustrate precepts from the Bhagavad Gita? choose at least 4.
5) The Ramayana's overall philosophy or "message" is closer to that of the Aeneid than it is to of the Bacchae.

Each answer must be a minimum of one page, double spaced.
the books are:
The Aeneid( Virgil) , The Ramayana, Bacchae( Euripides), Agamemnon(greek tragedies), The Bhagavad- Gita

Essay Instructions: The thesis should be Dionysus and the Bacchic Ritual -- Modern Manifestations of the Bacchae.



The paper should discuss the history, lore, and birth of Dionysus and the Bacchic ritual (first six pages)and how it has manifested itself in modern times with specific regard to the rise of Rock and Roll and contemporary festivals such as Burning Man festival.



The following sources must be used or alluded to:



Woodstock -- The Movie

Gimme Shelter -- The Movie

Dionysus 69 -- A theatrical production



The following books:



Kerenyi, Karl, 1897-

Title: Dionysos : archetypal image of indestructible li



Author: Carpenter, Thomas H.

Title: Dionysian imagery in fifth-century Athens





Author: Taffel, David, 1963

Title: Nietzsche unbound : the struggle for spirit in t



Author: Cocteau, Jean, 1889-

Title: The infernal machine, and other plays



Author: Dalby, Andrew, 1947

Title: Bacchus : a biography



Author:

Title: Dionysus since 69 : Greek tragedy at the dawn of



Author: Euripides.

Title: Bacchai

Essay Instructions: In your opinion, what is Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE about? Art? Sex? Self-delusion? Something else? Make sure to include some commentary about EITHER Plato's PHAEDRUS or Euripedes' THE BACCHAE, or both. Be specific; back up the thesis with citations from the texts:

DEATH IN VENICE by Thomas Mann
PHAEDRUS by Plato
THE BACCHAE by Euripedes