Meaning of bacchantic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Bacchanalian; drunken or frenzied and unrestrained; orgiastic.
   not-comparable
2. Pertaining to the clergy or worship of Bacchus.
   not-comparable

Examples

“The orchestra played bacchantic music, and in bacchantic madness the dancers rushed by each other.”

“There is a passage from chaos to cosmos marked by the "bacchantic" riots of Nature and even ourselves.”

“Yet nature is Spirit only in its otherness— self-alienated Spriit: "A bacchantic god innocent of restraint and reflection has merely been let loose into it " ( E §247z ) .”

“the reason for this was twofold: insufficient acquaintance with the metaphors applied to public life and, on the other hand, sublimation on principle of all erotic and bacchantic elements into mystic allegory.”

“Indeed the Tereus episode resembles the Hecuba even more closely because it combines the motif of a conspiracy of women (a motif also parodied in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae, Lysistrata, and Ecclesiazusae) with the motif of bacchantic rage and collective violence . It is even possible that this bacchantic motif entered Ovid's tale via Sophocles' lost Tereus, though this is only conjecture.”

“His friend Ted dancing the can-can trouserless with his shirt-tails flying, is an absurd equivalent to the bacchantic worshippers, who were supposed to don female dress during the rite.”

“In this way the spectators were contextualized as participants in a rite (the chorus of bacchantic dancers and those assisting were originally not separated, either spatially or in their pragmatic roles), who had to perform rite (rightly) that which lay beyond them all.”

“As am ecstatic city text it exemplifies the tendency to community, to festival, to love; and its bacchantic allusions remind us that Greek ecstatic religions were in part a protest against the restrictions of the urban, an effort to return to a more intense mode of existence.”

“The Perchta legends are of a somewhat wild— occasionally Bacchantic and Korybantic — character, in which the gloomy element is, however, not wanting.”

“Another beautiful fragment—noticed also by Mr. Koyl, who is making a releve/ of the villa—was part of a face, having the character of the Bacchantic masks of the Warwick vase.”

“Here in our newly-won knowledge where, as Hegel puts it in the Phenomenology, "the true becomes a Bacchantic orgy in which no one escapes being drunk", reason seems to have lifted the veil concealing the sacred mystery at Saïs and discovers, as in the parable of Novalis, that it is itself the solution to the riddle.”

“All four plays interrogate the liberating potential of the Bacchantic ritual and the Dionysian spirit, which, especially in Wertenbaker's The Love of the NIghtingale, entails a self-conscious analysis of gender roles, patriarchy, and historical agency.”

“Action in Dionysian theatre always took place in a sacred context, which applied a fortiori to the Dionysian and Bacchantic orgies.”

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