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Using Euripides’ Bakkhai as a shockingly vivid frame, the text contrasts the energy, ethics, and alterity of first moments with their underlying falseness. Through myths, Freud-like repetition, and the spectacle of desire—Pentheus’ disguise, the women’s worship, and violent procession—the work argues that every “new” beginning is preceded by older, deeper impulses.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":15,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/anne-carson-euripides-bakkhai/504148/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/anne-carson-euripides-bakkhai/504148.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Connor ","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-19","2026-10-03",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":52},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"How does the text characterize Dionysos’ role in beginnings?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"Dionysos is presented as the god of beginnings—arriving at new places to disrupt the status quo, carrying the start of a smile and the energy of imminent change.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"Why are beginnings described as “mostly fake” in the work?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"Most beginnings are said to be fake because the new person or desire already existed in advance, like the first sip of wine revealing what was already there.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What relationship does the work draw between desire and violence in the Bakkhai narrative?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It shows worship and passionate devotion leading into a world where violence begins once men arrive, framing the shock of the new as an unveiling through old and brutal ways.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},504148,1791458834,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":52,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},687207022233,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","bakkhai  \nalso by anne carson  \navailable from new directions  \nThe Albertine Workout  \nAntigonick  \nGlass, Irony & God  \nNox  \nbakkhai  \ni wish i were two dogs then i could play with me (translator’s note on euripides’ bakkhai)  \nDionysos is god of the beginning before the beginning.  \nWhat makes beginnings special? Think of  \nyour first sip of wine  \nfrom a really good bottle.  \nOpening page  \nof a crime novel.  \nStart  \nof an idea.  \nTingle of falling in love.  \nBeginnings have their own energy,  \nethics, tonality, colour.  \nGreenish-bluish-purple dewy and cool almost transparent,  \nas a ripe grape.  \nTone of alterity,  \nthings just about to change,  \nalready looking different. Energy headlong and heedless  \nand shot  \nlike a beam. Ethics fantastically selfish.  \nHe is a young god. Mythologically obscure, always just arriving  \nat some new place to disrupt the status quo, wearing the start of a smile.  \nThe Greeks called him “foreign”and staged his incursion  \ninto polis after polis  \nin stories like the one in Euripides’ Bakkhai.  \nA shocking play.  \nLecturing in Japan  \nStephen Hawking was asked not to mention that the universe  \nhad a beginning (and so likely an end) because it would affect  \nthe stockmarket. Speculation aside, we all need a prehistory.  \nAccording to Freud,  \nwe do nothing but repeat it.  \nBeginnings are special  \nbecause most of them are fake. The new person you become with that first sip of wine  \nwas already there.  \nLook at Pentheus twirling around in a dress,  \nso pleased with his girl-guise he’s almost in tears.  \nAre we to believe  \nthis desire is new? Why was he keeping that dress in the back  \nof his closet anyhow?  \nCostume is flesh. Look at Dionysos,  \nplucked prematurely  \nfrom his doomed mother ’s womb and sewn up  \nin the thigh of Zeus to be born again later. Life is a rehearsal  \nfor life.  \nHere’s a well-known secret about Dionysos:  \ndespite all those legends of him as “new god”  \nimported to Greece from the east,  \nhis name is already on Linear B tablets  \nthat date to 12th-century BC.  \nPreviousness  \nis something a god can manage fairly well (“time”  \na fiction for him) but mortals  \nless so.  \nLook at those poor passionate women who worship this god,  \nthe Bakkhai,  \ndestroyers of livestock and local people  \nand Pentheus the king.  \nThey had a prior existence once. The herdsman describes them lying at peace in the mountains  \n“calm as buttons on a shirt.”  \nThis is the world before men. Then the posse arrives  \nand violence begins.  \nWhat does this tell us? The shock of the new  \nwill prepare its own unveiling in old and brutal ways. Dionysos does not  \nexplain or regret anything. He is  \npleased  \nif he can cause you to perform, despite your plan,  \ndespite your politics,  \ndespite your neuroses,  \ndespite even your Dionysian theories of self, something quite previous,  \nthe desire  \nbefore the desire,  \nthe lick of beginning to know you don’t know.  \nIf life is a stage, that is the show.  \nExit Dionysos.","cbCailwQ8zEwWiZM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailwQ8zEwWiZM","pdf",1247445,72,"English","# Beginnings as Energy\n## Dionysos as a “young god”\n## Myth, alterity, and ethics\n# Violence, Desire, and Repetition\n## Pentheus’ disguise\n## The Bakkhai and the prior existence\n# The Show of Life and Exit","[{\"question\":\"How does the text characterize Dionysos’ role in beginnings?\",\"answer\":\"Dionysos is presented as the god of beginnings—arriving at new places to disrupt the status quo, carrying the start of a smile and the energy of imminent change.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are beginnings described as “mostly fake” in the work?\",\"answer\":\"Most beginnings are said to be fake because the new person or desire already existed in advance, like the first sip of wine revealing what was already there.\"},{\"question\":\"What relationship does the work draw between desire and violence in the Bakkhai narrative?\",\"answer\":\"It shows worship and passionate devotion leading into a world where violence begins once men arrive, framing the shock of the new as an unveiling through old and brutal ways.\"}]","Anne Carson - Euripides Bakkhai | PDF",1791064391,111]