CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dionysia, Story Arc, Lightning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 203
• Professor: Tim Wright

Document Summary

Covers everything up until thursday of week 6. Use the slides as a guide to study. Difficult to define his prerogatives/hard to pin down (part of his identity) Hera is angry and persuades the titans to attack zagreus, who is torn apart: but zagreus shouldn"t be able to die since he is a god, so this doesn"t make sense. Zeus somehow then preserved zagreus" heart and impregnated semele with that heart: this does make sense, since dionysus is god of rebirth, because of the vines. The house of cadmus (thebes) family tree. Pentheus becomes the king of thebes and replaces his grandfather, cadmus. He is sitting, with a big beard, a wreath of ivy, and holding a cup. If he wasn"t sitting and had no beard, he would be a cup bearer. A satyr is depicted; you can tell because he"s walking on hooves with a tail: often shown with erections but not in this case.