CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cadmea, Maenad, Birthmark

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Dionysus leaning against a tree wrapped in vines with grapes. Tells him to ind a cow with a moon shaped birthmark. Hera plants a seed in semele"s mind that told her zeus was not in his true form. Zeus reveals himself and he radiates so much o o. Seizes his unborn child and places the child in his upper thigh. Zeus produces a lot of children but doesn"t raise them o o. Dionysus was raised by his aunt ino and nymphs. At the high point of their worship they became violent. Persephone and zeus (alternate story) o o o. Zeus blasts the itans to ashes with his thunderbolt. Saves the heart of zagreus and sews it into his leg. The ashes of the bodies were mixed with clay. Childhood sarcophagus o o o rebirth ater death. Ariadne gives him a sword and a ball of string so he can get out of the labyrinth.