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Dionysus
Course: CLT 3370, Fall 2006School: University of Florida
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Bacchus God Dionysus Roman: of wine, drunkenness, hang over, loss of personality, out-of-body experience God of fertility (fluids that sustain life) o Sap, milk, semen, blood o Compliments Demeter's role Plant: ivy, grape Around felines, strong/ferocious animals (bull, leopard), sexual vitality (goat) Wore leopard skin Tree: fig tree Associated with phallus Birth story o Zeus and Semele (Princess of Thebes) o...
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Bacchus
God Dionysus
Roman: of wine, drunkenness, hang over, loss of personality, out-of-body experience God of fertility (fluids that sustain life) o Sap, milk, semen, blood o Compliments Demeter's role Plant: ivy, grape Around felines, strong/ferocious animals (bull, leopard), sexual vitality (goat) Wore leopard skin Tree: fig tree Associated with phallus Birth story o Zeus and Semele (Princess of Thebes) o Hera discovers the affair Disguised as an old woman, she befriends Semele Semele tells her about Zeus Hera warns her: men might lie to gain an advantage Suggests that Zeus revel himself as a god o Semele asks Zeus to prove his identity, makes him swear by the Styx o Zeus goes to her as a full-fledged god and she is incinerated...but pregnant o Hermes saves the child, sews him into Zeus' thigh o "twice born god" o Zeus hides Dionysus by giving him to Semele's sister (married to the King) Hera drives the sister and husband insane and they kill their children Ino boils her son, Hera feels bad and turns her into a minor sea goddess and the son into a sea figure o Zeus re-hides Dionysus by turning him into a goat Hermes takes him to the nymphs of Nysa and turns him back into a human Discovers wine and vine the in Nysa o Hera finds him and drives him insane Wanders the world in insanity o Goes to Frigia (home of the eastern goddess Cybele [Rhea]) Cybele cures him and teaches him sacred rights Given a long robe, has long hair Gains followers (thiasus) Satyrs tail/ears of a horse or goat legs, always erect
Maenads (Bacchae) women who run around eating flesh, nursing animals, and engaging in orgies Silenis old satyrs, general name and an individual Carries the thyrsus pine cone on top, ivy leaves around it o Goes to Lydia, where Midas has captured Silenis (individual) Dionysus tells Midas he'll give him whatever Anything he touches turns to gold Food, drink, people...not so good Asks Dionysus to take it back, has to wash in river o Meets Ariadne (princess of Thebes) Had helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur Dumped on an island Get married Those who reject the worship of him suffer from punishments o Lycurgas throws out nymphs, Dionysus goes to Thetis who goes to Zeus who strikes Lycurgas blind Tried to rape his mom in madness Pruned his or his son's legs Lands became infertile only way to bring fertility back is for Lycurgas to die so his people tie him to a stake and he is eaten by wild horses
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