title: Reimagining the Prophet: Teiresias as Comedian and Sophist in Euripides’ Bacchae
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metadata.value: Hilton, Ita
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metadata.value: 2022-10-06T13:50:37Z
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metadata.value: Hilton I. Reimagining the Prophet: Teiresias as Comedian and Sophist in Euripides’ Bacchae. Philologia Classica 2022, 17 (1), 4–21. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.101
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.101
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metadata.value: This article analyses the role of the prophet Teiresias in the Bacchae of Euripides in the particular
  context of sophistic influence. It views the originality of the prophet’s depiction as reflective
  of Euripides’ creative self-consciousness within an agonistic genre that relied on the malleability
  of ancient myth, particularly towards the end of tragedy’s “golden era”. Our particular aim
  is to present the prophet independently of the Sophoсlean background against which Teiresias
  is often viewed, and as a more complex figure than a (not especially satisfactory) radicalization
  of his earlier incarnations. The prophet in Bacchae is a liminal figure poised between tragedy
  and comedy, man and god, male and female, tradition and innovation. As such he parallels
  many of the “doublings” characteristic of Dionysus himself. The analysis re-examines the extent
  and nature of the comedy in the early Teiresias–Cadmus–Pentheus scene (170–369) in
  the context of the most recent scholarship. It then offers a close examination of the so-called
  sophistic speech by the prophet (266–327) within the framework of contemporary attitudes to
  sophism and how this has unfairly influenced scholarly perception of Teiresias’s authority as
  a dramatic character. The argument aims to establish Teiresias’s incarnation as both fifth-century
  intellectual and representative of traditional values. He thus reflects the tension between
  old and new in the integration of Dionysiac religion in mythical Thebes.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 17; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Teiresias
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metadata.value: prophet
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: comedy
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metadata.value: Bacchae
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metadata.value: sophism
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metadata.value: Reimagining the Prophet: Teiresias as Comedian and Sophist in Euripides’ Bacchae
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