Home›Sources›Holzhausen, "Poetry and Mysteries: Euripides' Bacchae and the Dionysiac Rites," Electronic Antiquity, 2008SourcesHolzhausen, "Poetry and Mysteries: Euripides' Bacchae and the Dionysiac Rites," Electronic Antiquity, 2008Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Holzhausen, "Poetry and Mysteries: Euripides' Bacchae and the Dionysiac Rites," Electronic Antiquity, 2008." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/holzhausen-poetry-mysteries-bacchae-dionysiac-rites-2008.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Holzhausen, "Poetry and Mysteries: Euripides' Bacchae and the Dionysiac Rites," Electronic Antiquity, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/holzhausen-poetry-mysteries-bacchae-dionysiac-rites-2008Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-holzhausen-poetry-and-mysteries-euripide, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Holzhausen, "Poetry and Mysteries: Euripides' Bacchae and the Dionysiac Rites," Electronic Antiquity, 2008}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/holzhausen-poetry-mysteries-bacchae-dionysiac-rites-2008}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA peer reviewed article in an academic classics journal, read directly for this entry. Its strength is that it directly examines a question this entry needs answered carefully, whether the play can be trusted as reliable evidence for the actual practice of Dionysiac mystery rites, rather than assuming its dramatic content is straightforward reportage. Its limit is that it is one scholar's argument within an ongoing classics debate rather than a settled consensus, cited here as a documented scholarly reading.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (12 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Reliability tier 1: a peer-reviewed classics journal article, Electronic Antiquity, carrying volume, issue and page numbers and a named academic author, the strongest available evidentiary form for a claim about ancient religious ritual.NotesWell-attestedChecked at its exact URL, published in Electronic Antiquity, a peer reviewed classics journal hosted by Virginia Tech's scholarly communication library. Author Jens Holzhausen is affiliated with the Free University of Berlin. The article examines the long standing scholarly argument that the play is a reliable guide to genuine Dionysiac mystery rites, weighing what the drama can honestly be taken as evidence for against what it dramatizes for its own poetic and theatrical purposes.CitationAuthorWell-attestedJens HolzhausenPublisherWell-attestedElectronic Antiquity, Vol. 12, No. 1, pages 41 to 72Publication YearWell-attested2008URLWell-attestedhttps://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V12N1/holzhausen.pdfSource TypeWell-attestedpeer-reviewed articleClaims Backed By This Source (12 claims)This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Performance Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested10ArticlesHow Much of This Was Ever Really PracticedPerformance WorksThe BacchaeSourcesHolzhausen, "Poetry and Mysteries: Euripides' Bacchae and the Dionysiac Rites," Electronic Antiquity, 2008General References2ArticlesHow Much of This Was Ever Really PracticedPerformance WorksThe BacchaeComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year