Une interprétation chrétienne des Bacchantes. Autour du sacrifice et de l'ambivalence du sacré dans les Bacchantes et dans le Χριστὸς πάσχων.

Bacchae are one of the euripidean texts mostly used in the Christus Patiens, a very particular cento by Gregory Nazianzen. In this paper we study a) the sacrificial vocabulary (there is practically none in the Christus Patiens), b) how the exile of Cadmos becomes the exile of the Jews, c) the echoing of the scene of the death of Pentheus in the death of Judas as well as the death of Jesus. So the author of the Christus Patiens does not present us a drama of the sacrifice of Christ by transfering expressions from a drama of dionysiac sacrifice ; his cento-work is a sort of dream-work which distorts a family story ; and this distortion can be for us a magnifying glass which enables to see better how euripidean characterisation in Bacchae leads the reader to ambivalent attitudes towards the euripidean characters.