01:190:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Delian League, Kantharos, Greco-Persian Wars
12 Apr 2016
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Time recap: 800 start of olympic games (776: persian wars 490-479, herodotus 488 bce. Peisistratus + sons (tyrant) 560 bce developed/built civic stuff. Tragedy: evolves around the delian league 470 bce. Dionysus and athens (and euripides" suppliant women: dionysus: patron of drama/ecstasy ( twice born / nysa-born ) Resistance myths: euripides" bacchae and doris kylix. Resistance myths: myths about dionysus trying to establish himself in a community and being resisted: newcomer god (local resistance myths . Linear b (written about all over in linear b tablets) People use these myths to create a connection to him. Amorphous representation man/animal, male/female and cruel/benevolent. Wine & ecstasy: drama (masks/choruses) and impersonation. Ecstasy = separation from your own identity. In art; sparagamos (ripping animals to pieces) + omophagia (his followers eating beasts raw) Dionysus & athenian cult: oschophoria, rural dionysia, anthesteria, lenaia: dramatic festival (comedy, city dionysia: dramatic festival. Note on the athenian theater: dramatic festivals: liturgies, choruses, competitions, etc.
