CLCV 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gordias, Irony, Agon
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God of wine, the life force, and instinctive side of personality. Panthers leopards (bull and goat) plants-ivy: draw a family tree illustrating the relationships among the following: zeus & hera; cadmus & Harmonia; semele, autonoe; agave & echion; pentheus; athamas & ino; dionysus & ariadne. Gave dionysus hospitality so he gets a wish. Wishes for everything he touches to turn to gold. Told to rinse in the river lydin/became one of richest kingdoms: give five examples of stories of resistance to dionysus, the pirates 2) lycurgus 3) daughters of king minyas 4) daughters of proetus 5) daughters of. Thebes is first town in greece to hear his followers" ecstatic cries . What does this person do to the theban women who worship. Pentheus because he does not worship/pray to him ( no drinking/sex). A contest, a debate with a stranger (dionysus) Pentheus doesn"t know the worshipping stranger is actually dionysus himself. Dresses as woman, goes to see them on mt.