CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Minyades, Salmacis, Unrequited Love
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50 marks for essay (1 out o 2 choices; touches on broad thematic trends, engaging with evidence in the form of specific examples in texts that we have studied) No need to do exact quotations, the more precise the better of where the passage is though. Convince women of thebes to cult of dionysus. Cult of dio(cid:374)(cid:455)sus a(cid:271)so(cid:396)(cid:271)ed at the(cid:271)es a(cid:374)d i(cid:373)piet(cid:455) si(cid:374)(cid:272)e e(cid:373)ele"s dou(cid:271)tful (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith the divine has been routed with a rues. Just like agave killed her son by sparagmos, there will be a lot more bloodshed to come. Agave looks like cactus pulled apart, named after agave who pulled apart her own son pentheus. Yet in thebes, though other women will accept dionysus, minyades do not (minyades as it is their patronymic, a name telling who their father is) Minyades are bad women, impious bad women is preficed by a hymn to bacchus.
