CL 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Conifer Cone, Actaeon, Pentheus

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Classics
• Course: CL 222
• Professor: Kirk Summers

Document Summary

Ivy entwined in hair; wearing a gown (often dressed like a girl); leopard skin. Followers carrying a stick with a pinecone on it; snakes. Dressed like a girl, riding a leopard, holding vines, and the pinecone is held by his followers. Birth of dionysus: semele + zeus (thebes) Semele = daughter of the king (cadmus) of thebes: nurse- hera. Hera finds out zeus is having an affair. Hera transforms herself into the nurse of semele: all his glory . Semele asks zeus to come with all his glory . Zeus essentially burns her up in the bed: zeus" thigh. Zeus reaches into the flames and snatches baby. Months later dionysus is born from the thigh of zeus: twice-born dionysus . Born early and then born from the thigh of zeus. Founder of the city of thebes: polydorus (great-grandfather of oedipus) Son of cadmus: autonoe (mother of actaeon)