I write about comparasion between Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King and Euripides' tragedy The Bacchae. In comparasion I focus on ritual elements and how these show in the both tragedies. I divide the tragedy on two tipes: ritualistic, which includes elements of old Sacer ludus (ritual dance) and ends with the rise vegetation god, and heroically, which focuses on the hero, who alredy knows hybris (fatal error). In the end of the heroic tragedy reconciliation and revival is not possible, because of hero's hybris. Heroic tragedy can end only with death. Both the tragedy illustrate of a ritual in different form - Oedipus the King trought the motives and The Bacchae trought the two ritual schemes: ritual schems and easthetic schems. Euripides illustrated the transition from ritual tragedy in the heroic tragedy, that has alredy aestetic elements. In the content I included the teory of tragedy, where I would like to define more precisely the ritual and heroic tragedy. I did also a comparasion with the teory of Oedipus complex with the teory of Oedipus as the original vegetation god.
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