그리스 비극을 통해 본 신성모독과 불경함에 관한연구

A Study on Sacrilege and Impiety in Greek Tragedy: A Case of the Bacchae and the Oedipus Rex

This paper tries to analyze the aspects of sacrilege and impiety in the Bacchae and the Oedipus Rex, focusing on the Dionysiac dynamism of the Greek Enlightenment in the 5th century BC, with the dynamism accounting for the existential identity of contradiction which came into being through the cultural matrix fluctuating myth and reason. Existential contradiction, which is inconsistent and variable in itself, is the ontological essence of humans, and is to be called dynamism or order-in-chaos; human reason looks rational but unreasonable, furthermore, neither rational nor unreasonable. The dynamism, bringing up new paradigm of de-liminality and de-blindness, is opening a new horizon of harmony and coexistence. Accordingly, the rational blindness of Oedipus and Pentheus, trying to measure and cut out divinity, is madness and disease, and the blindness accounts for the sacrilege and impiety which they commit by trying to keep their own contradiction secret or put it on the 'other' side. Paradoxically, the mental eyes work, with the physical ones discarded, and the cosmic logos is heard, with the existential contradiction listened to.