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if i'm not mistaken, though, Greek theater was often in general in part a ritual to bacchus; the Euripidean performance would have been less like a 2 hours at the theater, shocking tales of local myth sort of a thing and more a 12 hour festival involving lots of fire and crazy looking masks.
and as with other late period greek theater, the play is based on preexisting myth rather than contemporary sociology. when we worship deities, especially classical ones and the like, i would suggest that we are refering to their myths more than we are to their original customary form of interaction, and in this regard the play would have to be considered something of a canon text.
but then i suppose this raises an possibly interesting question -- are we interacting with the true god, the same one that ancient priests interected with, or are we interacting with a representation, a meditated-upon godform born from myth and later psychical energy? are these two different things at all? is there an argument to be made for simulation in these kinds of magical interactions? |
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