CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Maenad, Pentheus, Euripides
30 Jan 2015
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A god of plants; his main symbol was the vine. * god of nature and the abundance of life, a fertility spirit connected with the cycle of life and the underworld. * god of fluids the life giving element in nature; god of the sea, god of emotions. The birth of dionysos at thebes the mortal god. Instructed by apollo to found a new city, he killed a guardian serpent, a son of ares. * he sowed the serpent"s teeth into the earth, and they became the ancestors of thebes [the 5. * hera persuades semele to ask zeus to appear in his true form. * dionysos was saved by hermes and was sown into zeus"s thigh [born twice] * hermes gave the baby to ino, semele"s sister, but hera drove her mad. * hermes then gave him to the nymphs of nyssa. Semele dionysos"s mother, was burned to death.
