CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Homeric Hymns, Thyrsus, Baucis And Philemon

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Pramus thinks the worst and falls on his sword: thisbe comes back and sees pyramus dying so she also stabs herself. Dionysus (bacchus/liber: son of zeus and semele, liber is a greek word for free, timai: wine, ecstasy, ivy, fluids (milk,blood), animal, and vegetable matter. Vegetable matter" is not the same as agriculture, which as demeter"s timai dionysus is more about wild nature: ecstasy comes from the greek word: to stand out. It refers to becoming freer: symbols: vine, grapes, ivy, thyrsus, panther, lion (any big cat), bull, followers: maenads/bacchants, satyrs, he is a fertility god especially for the romans. Priapus: son of aphrodite and dionysus, rustic god of fertility and vegetable bounty, phallic, a phallus was seen as a good luck charm. Ino jealous: she took out her jealousy on semele, semele was pregnant and hera was upset. So she disguised herself as an old woman to be.

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