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Jiang reads Euripides' Bacchae as a critique of empire after Athens had become a mafia state and sacrificed young people in wars of empire.
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Euripides
Jiang argues that Euripides reimagines Pericles's funeral oration as the mother holding her son's head and celebrating her own bravery.
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Jiang characterizes Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as poets who were first and foremost prophets or teachers of democracy.
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Jiang argues that Euripides was less respected in Athens while alive because, unlike plays that celebrated Athenian democracy, he criticized it.
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Jiang identifies the Bacchae as Euripides's posthumously returned masterpiece and frames it as the final major example after Trojan Women.
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Jiang reads the Bacchae as a direct criticism of the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian War because Athens sacrificed young people to build empire.
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Jiang argues that Euripides reimagines Pericles's funeral oration as the mother holding her son's head and celebrating her own bravery.
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For Jiang, Euripides's criticism of Athenian democracy is also a defense of it, because democracy requires argumentation, debate, and self-reflection.
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Jiang says the three tragedians' works remain powerful because the Oresteia, Oedipus Rex, and the Bacchae are still performed around the world.
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"if you have not read euboides you must read euboides one of the greatest playwrights in human history so he wrote uh the play..."
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"...famous playwrights in Athens at that time were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, okay? And these were really playwrights, poets, but they were first and..."
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"So to win first place at the Festival of Dionysus is like winning the Nobel Prize in physics today, okay? So what I will..."
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"...questions before I move on? All right. Let's talk about, um, Euripides. Okay? And Euripides was, he's the youngest of these three. And he's..."
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"But Euripides, he criticized Athenian democracy. All right? So, the example is, in 415 BCE, and this is the height of the Peloponnesian War,..."
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"Okay? He died away from Athens. And his last play, he wrote his last play called, the Bacchae in Macedonia. And after he died,..."
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"It's really a metaphor or an image for war and empire, okay? Because remember, the Pelagian War is really about building empire, right? Athens..."
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"Euripides was probably in the audience, right, because everyone was in the audience when the speech was given, OK? And he reimagines his funeral..."
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"...can be better. OK? And again, these three, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are considered the three greatest playwrights in Athenian history. And these plays..."
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"And also the play, Bacchae, it's a direct attack on the idea of theater itself and democracy, OK? But I don't see it that..."
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"...Any more questions? Yeah, the Athenians, OK, so the thing about Euripides was that we today, scholars will all agree all these three, Euripides..."
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"And that's because well, Euribides was dead, OK? And they were able to see the genius and imagination of the Bac Chai much more..."
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