CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Maenad, Pentheus, Euripides
12 Sep 2016
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Son of zeus and semele (daughter of king cadmus in thebes) Zeus falls in love with semele and takes mortal form to have an affair with her. 7th homeric hymn; encounter with pirates who don"t suspect he"s a god abduct him; the helmsmen who knew dionysus" identity try and tell the pirates to let the god go; they don"t listen. Metamorphoses seen here as well (changing into a lion and changing the pirates into dolphins) But wine is not necessary of the dionysiac experience. Maenads; female celebrants of bacchus; drink not always wine but water or even milk. Rmbr: to the greeks performances and tragic plays, role playing, theatre are a part of religion. Ex: muses (goddesses) reigned over and inspired the realm of poetry for the greeks omofagia; eating raw flesh (dionysiac ritual) (pentheus being torn apart/ cattle of thebes ripped apart)
