"Dionysus is a god who takes human form, a powerful male who looks soft
and feminine, a native of Thebes who dresses as a foreigner. His
parentage is mixed between divine and human; he is and is not a citizen
of Thebes; his power has both feminine and masculine aspects. He does
not merely cross boundaries, he blurs and confounds them, makes nonsense
of the lines between Greek and foreign, between female and male,
between powerful and weak, between savage and civilized. He is the god
of both tragedy and comedy, and in his presence the distinction between
them falls away, as both comedy and tragedy…" -
Paul Woodruff, The Bacchae (Translated and Annotated) - Euripides
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