CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Homeric Hymns, Pentheus, Triptolemus
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God of wine = imp cause gr had high regard for wine o. Symposia = drinking parties men get together, drink, talk. Wine is dionysus" blood when you drink it you drink. Myths of resistance to dionysus: dionysus and the pirates/dolphins. Image: dionysus in the middle of the ship: dionysus in thebes. Pentheus, king of thebes: myth of pentheus: pentheus is guilty of not believing semele is pregnant by zeus, he believes he is not a god. He despises the women in the city of thebes that worship. Dionysus punishes pentheus to be destroyed by his own uncontrollable urges: he tempts him to come to the mountains dressed as a woman in disguise to look at the women having orgies for dionysus. By not acknowledging his lust he falls prey to it. The women find him and instead of seeing him as a woman or as pentheus, they see him as a lion because they are in the.
