Monologue

Dionysus Monologue from Hippolytus

From Hippolytus by Euripides

male · dark · 1:13 min

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Damsels, the lion walketh to the net! He finds his Bacchae now, and sees and dies, And pays for all his sin!--O Dionyse, This is thine hour and thou not far away. Grant us our vengeance!--First, O Master, stay The course of reason in him, and instil A foam of madness. Let his seeing will, Which ne'er had stooped to put thy vesture on, Be darkened, till the deed is lightly done. Grant likewise that he find through all his streets Loud scorn, this man of wrath and bitter threats That made Thebes tremble, led in woman's guise. I go to fold that robe of sacrifice On Pentheus, that shall deck him to the dark. His mother's gift!--So shall he learn and mark God's true Son, Dionyse, in fulness God, Most fearful, yet to man most soft of mood.

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Dionysus prepares to enact vengeance on Pentheus, invoking madness and humiliation as a means to reveal the true nature of divinity and power.

30s · anger · revenge · madness · power · identity

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