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        <title><![CDATA[In the Bacchae, female superiority is a major theme. Dionysus himself...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the Bacchae, female superiority is a major theme. Dionysus himself is presented to us as effeminate male. Teiresias and Cadmus who are old but well respected individuals dress in female clothing and dance on the hills. Dancing, lusting and chaos would all have been thought of as irrational in the eyes of a fifth century Athenian male, the audience of the tragedy. This irrationality was exclusively thought to be a female...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pentheus does not believe that Dionysus is a divinity.  He believes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pentheus does not believe that Dionysus is a divinity.  He believes that what the women are doing is for a false god and that it is immoral.  When the women went to the woods to begin their worshipping, Pentheus was abroad. However, he heard about their actions and upon his return he jailed many of the mad women and was working on capturing all of them.  He was too stubborn to go along with Tiresias and Cadmus.  They tried to convince...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Bacchae" why does Pentheus despise their dancing, lusting and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Bacchae" why does Pentheus despise their dancing, lusting and chaos?]]></description>
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