CLAS 160D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Strangles, Maenad, Euripides
30 Sep 2016
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Often wears women"s clothes (his association with hermaphrodites and transvestites) Often depicted wearing a vine and/or leopard skin (actually a cheetah) Thyrsus (spear with a pinecone on top) Connected to the exotic (went to india) Female followers, in control, more dominant than greek housewife. Foolish in appearance, goatish faces, insaciable in drinking and. Hera disguised herself as an old woman and talked to semele, dionysus" mom. She never saw zeus bc they made love in the dark at all times. When he reveals himself, she immediately burst into flames. Hermes rescues dionysus from ashes and zeus sews him into his body to save him, and then born out of zeus" leg, hence why he"s said to be born twice. When he"s off in india, ariadne is daughter of guy, theseus abandons her and dionysus stops and sees her, they fall in love and live happily ever after. Strangles lycurgus with his vines bc he banned wine.
