CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Bromius, Euripides, Sparagmos
7 Nov 2016
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Chronologically (in mythology) before oedipus the king. Issues pertaining to monarchy, but this time there is a stronger religious element: relates to the thought of dionysus and if he should be worshipped in thebes at all. Gods associated with him in the book: bromios, bakkhos (bacchus), iakhos (iachos), God associated with concealment, masks: god of drama and tragedy, all of these plays originally produced in the theatre of dionysus in the festival to. The mask: concealing ones identity, greeks had a hard time trusting someone in a mask; not revealing ones true identity. Go back to the founding of thebes of the birth of dionysus. Ares + aphrodite = harmonia: harmonia + cadmus have four daughters, one of them is semele, and one of them is agave, semele dionysus, agave pentheus. Olympian god born of a mortal woman. Zeus is his father (semel having an affair with zeus) Hermes saves the baby; sewn into zeus" thigh.
