CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sparagmos, Thyrsus, Pentheus
31 Aug 2016
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Bromos, bakkhos (bacchus), iakhos (iachos), euios (evius) God asscoius with coroncelment mask and drama. Element of danger since u can see behind that mask. Hermes saves the baby; swen into zeus" thigh. He was safe to pray for women since he didn"t chase them and wanted to rape or impregnating them. Crazed worship: sparagmos (violent tearing apart, omophagia (raw-eating) But also of destruction and death (through the animal killing) Nature can take away, as well as give like we all know. His worshipers do all the good and bad deeds, he himself remains detached. Disbelief within the family: aunts and pentheus. Dionysus turns the women into maenads, will force worship. Connected to the tragedy, he is the god of drama. Dionysus" power: taking control over pentheus" state of mid. Pentheus resists the plan, doesn"t want to dress as a women. Pentheus in costume, not in his right mind. Dionysus staged the attack, led by agave.
