CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Bronze Age, Drinking Horn, Hephaestus
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Originally seen as bringing his cult with him from the east with his asian bacchae worshippers (prologue to the play) Turned out dionysus was present in greece during the bronze age, aka one of the oldest documented greek gods that we have, so the myth had to be reinterpreted. Otto realized his movement from east was the experience of the god he is an outsider (and a (cid:374)ati(cid:448)e the(cid:271)a(cid:374)) that s(cid:449)ept o(cid:448)er the(cid:373) fro(cid:373) else(cid:449)here a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged the(cid:373) (cid:862)a(cid:374) arri(cid:448)i(cid:374)g god(cid:863). Double birth: semele, a theban princess, and of zeus. He is brought up outside of greece as a foreigner, but the coming of the god is overwhelming to all in his path. [image] hermes with the baby dionysus, bringing him to a mythical half-horse, half-human creature, a satyr, less violent than a centaur after wine. [image] drinking jar (kantharos), dionysos appears in the wedding of thetis and peleus, one of the earliest representations we have of him.
