- What questions and thoughts did you have while reading?
- How does Dionysus constantly turn everything upside down? (his arrest scene? his conversation with Pentheus? their plan?)
- When the messenger smarts off to Pentheus and claims he is very moody (sort of rude to be talking to a king) and "excessively kinglike" how is that a social commentary on the government?
- What is upside down according to the messenger's report?
- Track the digression of Pentheus' character from civilized to animal.
- How do you see Pentheus clutching at his power even when it is lost?
- Do you think Pentheus is really this dumb? What can account for his change of heart in his conversation with Dionysus?
HW: Leithart's input
Journal 35: Leithart pages 342-357. Please complete the Review Questions for both sections.
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