PS268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Hieros Gamos, Satyr Play, Dionysia
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Say where names come from (ex: homeric hymn to demeter) Trickster gods: hermes and prometheus could be zeus or gaea. Dionysus travels to naxos and marries ariadne (daughter of king minos of crete) after. Dionysus just so happens to come and save her as theseus is sailing away. She became a god too after zeus granted her immortality. D holds a pinecone staff look up name. Hephaistos made her a jewelled crown: etiological for corona borealis. Marriage an example of male and female power of vegetation (hieros gamos) Son oinopion rich in grapes , inventor of mixing wine with water, legendary founder of. Olympus: myth of dionysus and return of hephaistos. He won over hera by getting hephaestus drunk and bringing him back to the mountain to free his mother hera from the invisible bonds on the trick throne. Descends to the underworld (katabasis) to retrieve mother semele and bring her back to.
