CLA204H1 Lecture : CLA204H1 February 14th Notes
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God of wine, ecstasy, god of irrationality and all of that. Epiphet: bromios (noisy), one who makes a lot of noise. Symbols: thrysus, grapevine, ivy, leopard skin, panther, lion. Hera got zeus to appear as true form to semele. Semele burns apart as result of zeus true form, the fetus is left. Hermes takes the fetus, and zeus sews the fetus to his thigh, and then dionysus was born. Another story: hera convinces titans to kill little dionysus out of jealousy that dionosysus is whore"s son. The titan tears dionysus apart into little pieces, before he dies completely, Zeus saves his heart with help of some goddesses and remake dionysus. This is another myth showing dionysus born twice. Dionysus gets to join the olympian family for some reason even though mom was mortal. Hesphia has to leave to let dionysus join the olympian 12 apparently. Cadmus is brother of europa, recall europa girl that zeus raped.
