sparagmos
Sign in to savethumb|An "unspoken" sparagmos may have been the central element underlying the very genre of Greek tragedy. (Maenads and Pentheus, from the House of the Vettii)
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thumb|An "unspoken" sparagmos may have been the central element underlying the very genre of Greek tragedy. (Maenads and Pentheus, from the House of the Vettii)
Sparagmos (, from σπαράσσω sparasso, "tear, rend, pull to pieces") is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling, usually in a Dionysian context.
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