CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Conifer Cone, Pentheus, Euripides
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Dionysus/bacchus: god of fertility: grape, wine, birth: Semele tricked by hera (she asks zeus to look like what he does when he makes love to hera) Dionysus saved by hermes and sewed into zeus" thigh. Baby dionysus disguised as a goat in nysa: etymology: dionysus = dios (son) + nysa(?, eastern wanderings of dionysus. King midas and his wish (turn everything he touches to gold) Dionysus imports eastern rites to greece: dionysiac "ecstasy" = "standing outside oneself" Male satyrs (half-human, half-goat: dionysus (bacchus) marries ariadne. Princess from crete, abandoned by athenian hero theseus: myths of greek resistance to dionysus. The bacchae of euripides: dionysus, god of greek theater.
