CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Roman Citizenship, Male Pregnancy, Euhemerism
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Dionysus: far from greece (ethiopia, libya, arabia) travelling the mediterranean. Satyrs: in greek mythology, a satyrs the member of a troop of ithyphallic male companions of dionysus; they usually have horse-like ears and tails, as well as permanent, exaggerated erections. In greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of dionysus. Maenads were known as bassarids, bacchae, and bacchantes in roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent roman god, bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox-skin. Dance = whip your head back, trance like state, frenzy, renewal (reborn. = from being crazy: you need to cut loose, can"t always live with social restraint, help blow off steam then be reintegrated, etiology of rites of dionysus, son of zeus, zeus symbol is a thunderbolt. Euripides 5th century playwright: starts in thebes where dionysus is from originally, he was raised on mt.
