CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Greco-Roman Mysteries, Religious Experience, Homeric Hymns
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Cadmus & tiresias: a prophet that appears in a number of plays. Enthousiasmos - possession by the god: dionysus is the god of possession, liberation for the greeks, religious experience. Hermes vs dionysus: hermes: boundaries, dionysus is in between boundaries, he cross dresses etc. What kind of release does dionysus provide: women weave all the time and do housework and shit, a bunch of chores, very not released, tied up. Theatre of dionysus at athens: thespis 534 bc. Why do theatres have circular spaces: dionysus is agriculture, bring out harvest and threshing floor. Insofar as we are able, tiresias, we must do honor to this god, for he was born my daughter"s son, who has been revealed to men, the god, dionysus. Where shall we go, where shall we tread the dance, tossing our white heads in the dances of the god surely i could dance night and day, untiringly beating the earth with my thyrsus!
