CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pentheus, Dionysia, Komos
10 Feb 2017
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Clst 203 lecture 10 feb 9th. He is the last god to show up, was very late. (cid:862)o hea(cid:448)e(cid:374)-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 (cid:449)oods, fa(cid:396) off i(cid:374) phoe(cid:374)i(cid:272)ia, (cid:374)ea(cid:396) the st(cid:396)ea(cid:373)s of eg(cid:455)pt(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1009)(cid:1004)-51) Nysa greeks associate this place with ethiopia, libya, egypt, and sometimes even india. Tirumph of bacchus (india) god related to death. Other times zeus and persephone (queen of the underworld) Daughter of the first king of thebes, cadmus. She is a princess and zeus falls for her.
