CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thiasus, Minyades, Hieros Gamos
17 Sep 2016
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Most myths deal with him coming to greece, his arrival and people"s acceptance or rejection of him. O heaven-born, in-sewn god, some say you were born in dracanum, while others say windy icarus, or. Naxos, and others say it was by the deep-eddying river alpheus that pregnant semele bore you to zeus, who loves thunder. And others yet, lord, say you were born in thebes. The father of men and gods gave birth to you remote from men and secretly from white-armed hera. There is a certain nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in phoenicia, near the streams of. Could be in any of these places but not greece. Associated with lions, leopards not greek animals, saw this with artemis too. Could also be from thrace (where ares hangs out), ne of greece, modern bulgaria. Both these possibilities tend to follow trade routes.
