📔 Sexual Personae

His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators.

Dionysian sparagmos was an ecstasy of sexual excitation and superhuman strength.

He occupied a presexual or suprasexual dimension, the Greek aesthetic ideal.

Omophagy, ritual eating of raw flesh, is the assimilation and internalization of godhead.

There is no braking midline caesura, nor is there Pope's massy orotundity.

Dionysus, with his Maenadic night-rites, is the body as internal womb-space, tunneled for eating and procreating.

The ephebic androgyny of the high classic Apollo turned into effeminacy in Hellenistic art.

In “A Carcass,” embryogeny is reversed. Death, forcing the beloved to imitate the animal's deconstruction, will make her surrender gender, identity, and coherence.

That is, she has an amoral affectlessness, a serene indifference to the suffering of others, which she invites and dispassionately observes as tests of her power.

Therefore, despite its political patriarchy, Athens cannot be considered—horrid word—a phallocracy.