CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Faunus, Komos, Bacchanalia
24 Oct 2014
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Dionysos is a god for women related to sex, alcohol, dancing, music masks etc. but drunken women won out with the i-clicker. Is the most foreign of all the gods. Varied accounts: he is definitely not greek much of his myth is him travelling to greece. O heaven-born, in-sewn god, some say you were born in dracanum, while others say windy icarus, or naxos, and others say it was by the deep-eddying river alpheus that pregnant semele bore you to zeus, who loves thunder. 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 from 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) There are many places that he is associated with. Sometimes these areas claim he is from there.
