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Day of the Dead or Dead Day is the one day a year when the women had the power. They could do what they wanted and the next day they would not be held accountable of what they had decided to do on that day.

Make sure to read through Commentary #3 at the end of Lysistrata, it is titled Athenian Women

Lysistrata

they do two things to the councilor
1. Dressed him as a woman
2. Dressed him as a corpse

The first one, dressing him like a woman, is the most humiliating thing that can happen to a manly, man in greek mythology

The councilor is turned into a scapegoat

the word scapegoat derives from the idea of the community getting a goat and telling all of their sins to it and then sending it out into the forest. They do this to clear their slate, when the goat leaves, the sins that they told to the goat also left.

Happy endings are for comedies - they also tend to end with either dancing or feasting or a combination of the two.
-a way for this to happen in most comedies is through a wedding
a new comedy would wed a young man to a young woman
an old comedy would wed an old man to a young woman

Elvis and Dionysus
The cover of the Bacchae is Elvis, I had no idea why they would use such an icon to depict Dionysus. In class though Dr. Sexson.. Dionysus drives you out of your mind, much like Elvis does. Women riot for both of these guys because they are hypnotizing (Evils actually uses his hips to do this). Both Elvis and Dionysus have the ability to bewitch people, women especially.

Dionysus is also not aggressive.

Dionysus means deconstruction
His saying would be something like…”You think too much, lets party”

Dionysus is not worried about people being smart, instead he just cares about doing things that are natural.

Dionysus and Apollo are the opposites of each other

Ecstasy – standing outside our self