CLA204H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pentheus, Bear Hands, Thyrsus
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Dionysus is god of wine and instinictive part of personality. Was admitted to olympus later than the others and according to some sources dis- placed hestia to become one of the twelve. Dionysus important as wine was an everday drink. > thick lucious ivy was a sign of his presence. He wore a leopard skin and panthers pulled his chariot. The phallus and horns of a bull were his emblems. Male followers were satyrs with erect penis sometimes enormous and the tails and ears of horses. Silliness is either a general term for any old satyr or an ugly, drunken, extremely fat one that lied a lot. Shown in art with thick lips and a pug nose riding on a donkey so drunk he can barely balance. Dionysus swept as far east as india. Stopped in phrygian where he rewarded the local king son of gourds and cybele for his generous hospitality by granting a single wish.
