Lecture 16/17

Question 1

Agave

Answer 1

Mother of Pentheus

Question 2

Agriania

Answer 2

Ritual pursuit of women at night in Argos, inspired by the story of Dionysus and the Proetids

Question 3

Dryope

Answer 3

Mother to Pan by Hermes, daughter of Dryops

Question 4

Echo

Answer 4

Nymph cursed by Hera to only repeat the words of others

Question 5

Bacchae

Answer 5

Female followers of Dionysus, sometimes called the Bacchantes or Maenads, also the title of a play by Euripides

Question 6

Lycurgus

Answer 6

King of Thrace who pursues Dionysus, blinded by Zeus for his actions

Question 7

Midas

Answer 7

King of Phrygia, returns Silenus to Dionysus and is granted the gift of golden touch

Question 8

Narcissus

Answer 8

Son of Cephisus and Liriope, rejects Echo and falls in love with his own reflection and wastes away, turned into a flower

Question 9

Omophagy

Answer 9

The ritual eating of raw flesh (since the god was believed to be present in the victim)

Question 10

Pactolus River

Answer 10

River with a golden bed, Dionysus told King Midas to wash away his gift here

Question 11

Pan

Answer 11

Half-man half-goat, god of shepherds and musicians, inventor of the panpipes, name means ‘to feed’, associated with Arcadia

Question 12

Pentheus

Answer 12

King of Thebes who resists the worship of Dionysus, driven insane and killed by Agave (his mother)

Question 13

Proetids

Answer 13

Daughters of King Proetus, driven insane by Dionysus, cured by therapeutic dance upon instruction from Melampus

Question 14

Sileni

Answer 14

Associated with Dionysus, indistinguishable from satyrs, can be older (papposileni)

Question 15

Syrinx

Answer 15

Lovely nymph, devoted to Artemis, pursued by Pan and transformed into marsh reeds

Question 16

Bacchanalia

Answer 16

Roman word for parties and celebrations, associated with Dionysus

Question 17

Cadmus

Answer 17

Retired King of Thebes, welcomes the new god Dionysus

Question 18

Ekstasis

Answer 18

Greek verb meaning to ‘stand outside (of oneself)’, can be released through wine/music/dance, derivation for the word ecstasy

Question 19

‘In Vino Veritas’

Answer 19

Means that a person under the influence of alcohol tells the truth

Question 20

Liber

Answer 20

Roman name for Dionysus meaning ‘free’

Question 21

Lysios

Answer 21

Epithet for Dionysus meaning ‘The Deliverer’

Question 22

Mount Nysa

Answer 22

Mountain in Egypt where Dionysus was brought up, home to the Nymphs of Nysa

Question 23

Semele

Answer 23

Daughter of Cadmus, mother to Dionysus, killed by Zeus revealing his true form

Question 24

Sparagmos

Answer 24

Sacrificial rending of the victim (limb from limb)

Question 25

Thiasus

Answer 25

Religious congregation led by Dionysus, composed of satyrs, maenads and Sileni

Question 26

Thyrsus

Answer 26

Ivy covered shaft wielded by Dionysus or the maenads, name derived from the Hittite word tuwarsa (‘vine’)

Question 27

Zagreus

Answer 27

Son of Persephone and Zeus, another name for Dionysus, devoured by the Titans