Pre-Dionysus notes

Question 1

Hesiod: Who birthed the titans?

Answer 1

Gaia and Ouranos

Question 2

Hesiod: Listed names and titles of the titans

Answer 2

Oceanos: river of the world

Coios: intelligence

Crios: leadership

Hyperion: The first sun god

Theia: Light

Rheia: Prophecy - relating to oracles

Themis: law

Mnemosyne: memory

Phoebe: Radiance, beauty

Tethys: Inland rivers

Iapetos: father of promethius

Cronos: Last son, titan of time

Question 3

Hesiod: Other than the titans, what did Gaia and Ouranus birth?

Answer 3

3 cyclopses and 3 hundred handed ones

Question 4

Hesiod: Who birthed the gods?

Answer 4

Chronos and Rheia

Question 5

Hesiod: List the gods and their abilities

Answer 5

Zeus - Sky, thunder and weather

Poseidon - Sea, Earthquake

Hades - Underworld

Hestia - Hearth, home

Demeter - Corn and fertility of land
- Holds a cornucopia/horn of plenty
Hera - marriage

Question 6

Hesiod: What was the titanomachy

Answer 6

The clash between gods and titans

Question 7

Myth of promethius storyline

Answer 7

Promethius steals fire from the pantheon and gives it to mortals, becomes punished by zeus: chained to a rock and has liver ripped out by harpies every day. Zeus then punishes humanity with pandora for the fire they now are in possession of.

Question 8

Pandora

Answer 8

Very misogenistic, based on hesiod’s personnel views. Created as the root of all evil, releasing all forms of negative energy, depriving all of any hope. Reinforces women’s subservance and domestic role in society

Question 9

OENOS story

Answer 9

Dionysus slept with the wife of oenos after he was hospitable and took him in, dinonysus then showed him how to harvest grapes and named them after him

Question 10

King midas

Answer 10

Was made to be a judge between apollo and pan in a piping contest. For saying pan to be the winner, apollo gives him ears of a donkey. Later on, he helps silenos and in return, he gets a wish granted, which was the golden touch, which became a curse. Ended up turning a river golden in an attempt to cure his curse.

Question 11

Homeric Hymn

Answer 11

Dionysus is captured by pirates, the helmsman is the only one who was spared from traditional Dionysus traits: vines, wine and metamorphosis

Question 12

The Tyrrhenians

Answer 12

Same as homeric but roman, and more grosome

Question 13

Cornutus

Answer 13

Depicted as both young and old meaning wine should be drank in moderation.
Sexal presentation of satyrs and mineads show that it should always be diluted
THE PHALLIC DEPICTIONS SHOW the connection to sexuality

Question 14

Fulgentius

Answer 14

Ino represents wine itself
Autonoe represents lack of awareness
Semele = loose body
Agave = madness
Liber = liberation of the mind
He also is depicted to take wild nature, to be naked and to be young, as intoxication takes over the wild, layes bare to the mind and is never mature

Question 15

Icarius and Erigone

Answer 15

Shows dionysus hospitality and he gives them wine to sow their crops with. The farmhands drank too much and beat icarus to death for attempting to poison them. Erigone found his body and hung herself. Dionysus thenninflicted a hanging curse on the athenians so in return they named constillations after icarius erigone and their dog.

Question 16

Nysus

Answer 16

When going to war, dionysus gave control of thebes to Nysus, the man who raised him. When Nysus did not want to give the land back, dionysus snuck in to do a performance, with his army disguised as women, and retook the land

Question 17

Lycurgus

Answer 17

After the exile of dionysus, Lycurgus begins to have an urge to assault his mother, he then tries to uproot the grape vine but cuts off his own foot instead, in a fot of masnesss, he kills his own wife and child and is then killed by dionysus

Question 18

Penthius and agave

Answer 18

For Penthius denying that dionysus is a true god, the god forced his mother, agave, into a fit of madness and sporagmos and she tore him apart. She then fled the city and was taken in in by a nearby king.

Question 19

Euripedes bacchae

Answer 19

Penthius and agave story, with added componants of driving the women of thebes mad and they turn into meanads and that the sisters become exiled