CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Sparagmos

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Disguised as a mortal, zeus was having an affair with semele, daughter of cadmus. When hera found out, she appeared to semele disguised as an old woman and convinced her that she should ask her lover to appear in the full magnificence of his divinity. Semele first persuaded zeus to swear that he would grant her whatever and then revealed her demand. Zeus was obliged to comply and semele was burned to a cinder by the splendor of his person and the fire of his lightning flash. The unborn child was saved and he sewed him up to his thigh, from which he was born again at the proper time. When dionysus reached manhood, he carried the message of his worship far and wide, bringing happiness and prosperity to those who would listen and madness and death to those who dared opposite. Dionysus is basically a god of vegetation in general and in particular of wine.

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