CLASSICS 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Aeschylus, Hector, Cyclops
5 Sep 2016
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Unit x reading notes classical myth: myths of fertility - dionysus. Dionysus, god of wine, the life force, and instinctive side of personality. He was admitted to olympus later than the others according to some, displaced hestia to become one of the twelve. The ancient greeks, dionysus (also known as bacchus) was the god who taught the art of turning the juice of grapes into wine. As a god of fertility, dionysus encouraged the burgeoning of everything alive. Thick, luscious ivy was a sign of his presence. Also came to stand for a distinctive form of human experience, a divinely inspired madness in which one"s ordinary sense of self is lost, and with it the accepted norms of decent and rational conduct. Some features of cult, striking parallels in new religion of christianity. Homer had little to say about him - lacked sympathy for this god of drunkenness and sexual license.
