"Many are the forms taken by the plans of the gods and many are the things they accomplish beyond men's hopes. What men expect does not happen; for the unexpected heaven finds a way. And so it has turned out here today."
~ The Chorus in The Bacchae
The chorus in greek theatre serves merely to drill the painfully obvious morals of the stories deeper into the audiences brains. I personally find the chorus of the Bacchae to be incredibly pointless. In many stories they serve a useful purpose, such as showing how an ideal audience might react to the play, but in the Bacchae i find that they merely echo the abundantly clear morals.
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