Unhinged Deep Dive Into The Secret History's Bacchanal

Hi, class!

I had the time of my life researching for this video after spending a week on my thesis constantly being berated by mentions of the Bacchanalia. It was a sign from the universe to combine the two loves of my life and here they are!

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Primary Sources & Bibliography:
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita
Cicero, De Natura Deorum
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Ingo Gildenhard & Andrew Zissos, The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture, 65-67
Richard C. Miller, Neos Dionysos in Textual and Cultural Mimesis, 37-42
Michael Lipka, Concepts and Society, 167-185
Matthias Riedl, The Containment of Dionysos: Religion and Politics in the Bacchanalia Affair of 186 BCE, 113-134
Dwayne Meisner, Livy and the Bacchanalia, 1-40
Heather O’Leary McStay, “Viva Bacco e viva Amore”: Bacchic Imagery in the Renaissance

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