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Dionysus Flashcards

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Bacchae (Bacchantes)

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Euipides story, female followers of Bacchus

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Bacchanalia

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wild parties in honour of bacchus

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Cadmus

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king of thebes, father of Semele

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Dionysus (Bacchus)

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God of Wine
§ Fermentation of grape
God of Fertility
§ Complement to Magna Mater
§ Life-giving liquids: wine, blood, semen, sap
God of Ecstasy
§ Release through wine, music & dance
§ Madness & Irrationality
§ Release from all restraints
God of Theatre § Loss of Identity

Dio = sky god
nsys = son, or Mt.Nysa

ivy and panther skin

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Ekstasis

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standing outside oneself

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In Vino Veritas

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truth in alcohol

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Liber

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free

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Lysios

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loss of personal identity, the deliverer

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Maenad

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Bacchantes - madwomen
wield thyrsus and leopard

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Mt. Nysa

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birthplace

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Nymphs of Nysa

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Zeus gave Dionysus to raise and raised him with Silenus

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Persephone

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Zeus has affair with Persephone? Hera gets jealous

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Phrygia

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asia minor, origin of Dionysus

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Satyr (Faun)

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half-man, half-goat

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Semele

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Mother of Dionysus, Zeus father,

daughter of Cadmus, king of Thebes - zeus dressed as mortal impregnated Semele

Hera tricks her by asking Zeus to reveal himself which burns Semele but Zeus saves Dionysus and he is sewn into his thigh

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Silenus / Sileni

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part man part beast

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Sparagmos

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ritual slaughter of sacrificial victims

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Thebes

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Cadmus is king

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Thiasus

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orgiastic worship followers
Maenads
Satyrs
Sileni

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Thrace

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greece, origin of Dionysus

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Thyrsus

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pole wrapped with ivy and topped with pine Cone
“vine”

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Zagreus

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Epithet of Dionysus

Hera gets jealous of Persephone and orders titans to dismember and devour Zagreus

Athena saves heart and gives to Zeus who swallows it and Dionysus is born again (via Semele)

Zeus destroys Titans and humans were born from their ashes

human duality - bad(titans) good(Dionysus)

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roman name

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bacchus

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Agave

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pentheus mother, sister of Semele

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Agriania

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Festival in honour of Dionysus

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Cybele

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Dionysus driven insane by jealous Hera

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Dryope

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mother of Pan

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Echo

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pans other love - flees his advances, Pan drives shepherds mad (panic), shepherds tears Echo to pieces only voice remained

talkative nymph, punished by Juno to only repeat words

Echo falls for Narcissus and he rejects her and echo wastes away - only voice remains

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Euripides’ Bacchae

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Pentheus Rejects Dionysus § Theban Women driven insane
§ Wander about Mt. Cithaeron
§ Pentheus assumes sexual orgies—or worse!
§ Pentheus Arrests ‘Mysterious Stranger’ § Stranger escapes bonds; destroys prison
§ Pentheus driven insane
§ Sees double; sees ‘stranger’ as bull
§ Dresses up like a woman to spy on Theban women § Ritual victim to the slaughter

Death of Pentheus
§ Caught spying on maddened women
§ Led by Agave
§ Mother of Pentheus; Aunt to Dionysus
§ Pentheus torn to pieces § Sparagmos
§ Agave puts his head on a spit § Omophagia
§ Devouring of raw flesh
§ Agave and mad women regain senses
§ Awesome Power of Dionysus affirmed § Accommodation of the Irrational

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Homeric Hymn to Dionysus

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Abducted & Bound by sailors
§ Mistaken for mere mortal
§ bonds miraculously fall off
Crew refuses to recognize divinity
§ Only helmsman does
Ship flows with wine
§ Ivy grows upon mast
§ Sail covered in grape-clusters
§ Dionysus transforms into a lion
§ Bear appears on deck § Crew jumps into sea
§ Transformed into dolphins § Only helmsman spared

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Lycurgus

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King of Thrace
routs Dionysus and Thiasus - D jumps into sea rescued to Thetis - Zeus blinds Lycurgus for Hubris (variant Lycurgus driven insane)

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Midas

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captures Silenus - overweight satyr, tall tale teller then returns to Dionysus and he rewards Midas - man with the golden touch - gift becomes curse

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Mt. Cithaeron

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theban woman go crazy and wander here

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Myths of Resistance

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The most famous Resistance Myth connected with Dionysus occurred in his city of origin, Thebes, with his cousin Pentheus. After Semele died, her sisters, most notably Agave, spread the rumor that Semele had lied about the paternity of her child and Zeus had punished her for it with his thunderbolt.

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Narcissus / Narcissism

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Handsome youth

falls for his own reflection and wastes away becomes a flower

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Omophagia

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devouring of raw flesh

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Pactolus River

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Midas washes off power in river

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Pan

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part man part goat, father Hermes, mother dryope

pan means to feed, associated with Arcadia

created pan-pipes

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Pentheus

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King of Thebes, cousin of Dionysus, resist his worship (Cadmus was former king) and Tiresias advise him to to accept divinity

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Proetus & the Proetids

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Daughters of Proetids, king of Argos
Proetids refuse new religion and are driven insane that is only cured by shouting and dancing = Festival of Agriania

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Silenus / Sileni / Papposileni

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half man half goat dude

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Syrinx

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Nymph that was devotee of Artemis, pursued by Pan transformed into reeds

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Viticulture

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Art of wine making

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