CLASSICS 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Theatre Of Dionysus, Half Human, Silenus
3 Dec 2014
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And others yet, lord, say you were born in thebes. The father of men and gods gave birth to you remote from men and secretly form white-armed hera. There is a certain nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in phoenicia, near the streams of egypt (cp 117-18) Nysa ethiopia, libya, egypt, or india: lions, leopards. Zeus place unborn child in his thigh. Born out of the thigh of zeus. Titan and olympian: heavenly and beastly. God of the vine makes wine, important for greek"s economy and social life. God of ecstasy: physical, mental, and spiritual release through song and dance, different from apollo (art music, dionysos drum, trance. Omophagy northern bulgaria, not very western: eating of raw flesh. European fat, grotesque, drinking, binging on wine: baby drinking wine and urinating at the same time, too much alcohol, over consumption. Greek young, very young: younger than apollo, female looking.
