CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Greco-Roman Mysteries, Pentheus, Icaria
27 Sep 2017
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Midterm up to end of today"s lecture! Second version: orphic mystery religions these mystery religions made dionysus a key figure these mysteries gave an overview of the descent to the underworld and what you should do when you wake up dead. Dionysus, in these stories, was originally called zagreus. Zeus mated with persephone and produced a divine child called. He was going to make zagreus the king of the universe (since. Zeus = king of heaven, persephone = queen of the underworld) Hera didn"t like this, so she sent the titans/giants to devour. Zeus found out what was going on and blasted the titans and burned them. Athena came down to where the titans were and found out. She took the heart back to zeus, and zeus ate the heart. Semele, dionysus" mother, died and so he was given to ino (semele"s sister); dionysus was brought to ino by hermes.
