After reading a chunk of Euripides Bacchae, I had many thoughts that I feel should be written down. First off I noticed the connection between this story and Dionysus, which I then concluded the two, Bacchae and Dionysus, to be the same. Bacchae also began the story by stating that he was in disguise, which has been a major motif we've been finding in myth, that we've been discussing throughout the class. His mother, Semele, was discussed in class as well. We went over how she was tricked by Zeus's jealous wife, Hera, into asking Zeus to show her his real form (without disguise). This notion of disguise and hiding is very evident throughout greek myth.
Semele's small body structure couldn't take the king's superiority and was obliterated. Dionysus was still a fetus inside her when this occurred. In order to protect his unborn son from Hera, Zeus attached Dionysus to his thigh by stitching him there until the child was ready to be born. Since Dionysus's birth, the rest of the royal family has denied that he's a god. After reading about him on scholarly sources, this information never appeared, which I found interesting. The story itself of Dionysus was never exposed, possibly due to the end result of it? I formulated this question due to my curiosity.
More to come about the remainder of the story..
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