CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tyrant, Euripides, Pangaion Hills
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Lecture 11 myths of fertility ii: dionysus (p 262-283, 288-291) Dionysus is the god of vegetation, wine and winemaking, pleasure, and festivity. He is also the god of (greek) theatre. His attributes include the thyrsus (a staff with a pine cone tip), grapes, grape-vines, ivy, wine, drinking vessels, phalli, the horns of a bull, as well as leopards/panthers. Earlier depictions of dionysus often shows him to be old and bearded, but in the later ones he can be seen as a beardless, unathletic youth with long hair. Many of the most well-known greek myths are preserved as the plots of tragedies performed in his honor: the city dionysia, a public festival that was reorganized by pisistratus. The word epiphany means sudden appearance or manifestation. Some recurring features of divine epiphany include the sudden appearance of a particular god or his/her symbols, sweet fragrance, music, as well as natural/unnatural phenomena like thundering and earthquakes .
