The political group behind theatrical production: a speech analysis of the Bacchae

Abstract

This article proposes a discourse analysis of the tragedy Bacchae (Bakxai) of Euripides (406/5 b.C.) allied to the Eni Orlandi’s concepts (2001) and in dialogue with the historiographical ideas of Carlo Ginzburg (1989) on the signs revelators of meaning to raise the presence of a political group in financing the production of this work carried out in Athens at the end of the fifth century. Conciliates studies of Paul Foucart (1904), Richard Seaford (2006), Leandro Barbosa (2012), Courtney Friesen (2015) and Eric Csapo (2008) to evaluate the play and the god Dionysus presents in it, as well as studies of the historical context such as Luis Fernando D’ajello (2014) and the Xenophon’s work Hellenica.