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6 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: bacchae, bacchaes, the-bacchaes

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The Bacchae

Euripides play Jiang uses as an image and critique of empire, especially the sacrifice of the young.

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The Bacchae

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Euripides play Jiang uses as an image and critique of empire, especially the sacrifice of the young.

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The Old Sacrifice The Young

2025-08-08, day precision · Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed

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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..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...Athens. And his last play, he wrote his last play called, the Bacchae in Macedonia. And after he died, his friends brought this play..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...my army, go in the mountains and kill everyone, okay? Because the Bacchae are too disruptive. They are amoral, okay? And he's about to..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...the branch, okay? And he has a very clear view of the Bacchae who are in a circle. Then what Dionysus does is he..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...it's sacrificing its young people in order to accomplish this. So the Bacchae is a direct criticism of the Athenian Empire and it's direct..."

Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself

2024-10-17, day precision · Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy

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"...actually still performed today. OK? So the Orestia, Oedipus Rex, and the Bacchae are still performed in theaters around the world today. That's how..."

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