Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Miasma Theory, Tiresias, Euripides

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Review on dionysus: greek (and foreigner, boundary dissolver. Travels out of greece to grow up. He is threatened many times: many myths of resistance to the god and punishment of theomachoi. What we should respect, what we should be afraid of: speci c rituals. Sparagmos: sacri cing of a live victim and tearing them apart. Phallophoria: a public parade through the city featuring an erect phallus with an honoured person granted the opportunity to ride through the city atop the phallus: also addressed as bromius, Bacchus: thiasos of bacchants or maenads, satyrs, bromius, bacchus = females | satyrs = men, dioysus of zeus" thigh vs. Because he is born again through the thigh of zeus, his mortality is burned away and he is made fully divine: thyrsus, mythic representations of dionysus we know he was actually honoured in a traditional way.