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16 Cards in this Set
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Dionysus
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-god of wine
-replaced Hestia as the 12 olympians -male fertility god -symbols: ivy, phallus, horns of a bull - |
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Cult of Dionysus
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-celebrates his divinely inspired madness
-drinking, sex, and violence as pleasures -Hard for rational Greeks to embrace their irrational selves in exuberant excess |
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Dionysus Early Birth and Youth
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-Semelê, Princess of Thebes, gets pregnant by Zeus, who appears to her disguised as a mortal
-Semele wants to see Zeus in godlike form; Zeus does and burns her into a crisp in the process; saves the fetus and sows it into his thigh -Dionysus is born 3 months later -Dionysus given to Ino, sister of Semele, and is disguised as a girl -Hera is not fooled and drives Ino and her husband insane, where they kill their own childen; Zeus turns Dionysus into a goat and is sent to the Nymphs of Nysa by Hermes |
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The Wonderings of Dionysus
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-discovers how to turn grape juice into whine at Nysa
-Hera finds him and strikes him into drunken delirium -meets Cybele at Phrygia where she cures him of his madness |
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Bacchae
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-women possessed by Bacchus
– Also called Thyiades = “the frenzied ones” – Also called Maenads = “the raging women” |
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Bacchantes
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men and women of Bacchus
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Satyrs
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-other male followers of Dionysus
– Part human, part horse or goat, usually with erect penis – Silenus (in plural = Sileni) = another name for a satyr, or a particular satyr, known as fat, ugly, and drunk |
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Midas
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-helps Dionysus find a drunken satyr for a wish that everything he touches turn to gold
-he regrets it when he is hungry and thirsty and is told to go to the Pactolus river to cleanse himself -Lydia becomes rich from the washed off gold |
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Ariadne
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-marries Dionysus after being abandoned by Theseus
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Lycurgus (Thrace)
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– Tried to run Dionysus off with an ox-goad
– Zeus struck him blind (and likely mad) – Killed by his own people to appease the god |
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The Proetids (Argos)
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– Daughters of King Proetus, refused to worship with
Dionysus’ band – Afflicted with leprosy, itching heads – Went insane, thought they were cows |
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The Minyads
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-the 3 daughters of King Minyas
-refused to join rest of the city's party -reject Dionysus -they eat one of their own children and join the Bacchae (possessed by Dionysus?) -Dionysus turns them into bats |
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Dionysus and the Pirates
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-told in Homeric Hymm to Dionysus
-Estruscan pirates abduct Dionysus -Dionysus tuns into a lion and kills captain -other sailors jump ship and turn into dolphins |
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Dionysus Journey to the Underworld
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-wants to bring his mother to Olympus
-shepherd Argos shows him the entrance to underworld -he convinces Hades to give his mother back; Argos is found dead when they leave the underworld -he puts a wooden phallus on the shepherd's grave to symbolize fertility in exchange for resurrecting his mother -mother's name changed from Semele to Thyone when they ascend to Olympus |
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sparagmos and omophagia
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-the tearing apart and eating of the raw flesh of the sacrificial animal
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Agave
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-her and Autone accuse Semele of lying about Zeus as her lover
-Dionysus casts a spell of madness on her -while mad, she pulls Pentheus (her son's) head off -she is then brought back to her sense to realize what she has done= her punishment for slandering Semele |
