Les Bacchantes. Divers The exhibition Antoni Tapies

The exhibition Antoni Tapies

during the 19th century

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Mental illness was not the object of a supernatural explanation

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Les Bacchantes. Divers The exhibition Antoni TapiesComposed by the Greek poet Euripides in the late 5th century BC, the tragedy of the Bacchae depicts a power struggle between Dionysus, the god of life forces, and the king of Thebes, Pentheus. For some 1,400 lines, they seek each other out, never finding each other: they do not speak the same language; their goals differ greatly. But the struggle is unequal: Dionysus has divine omnipotence on his side; Pentheus's desires are so excessive that he