HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Conifer Cone, Melicertes, Pentheus

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1105
• Professor: Loredana Kun

Document Summary

The bacchae were women followers of the god dionysus (in greek) or. Dionysus as a new/old god is also called bromius/evius. Bacchae"s symbol is the fennel stick or thyrsus: a staff tipped with a pine cone with ivy and a vine branches twined around it: dionysus" cult. The dionysian cult originated in asia and spread into greek culture. The play was based on historical reports of frenzied women (the bacchae) performing rituals and violence at thebes, argos, and in athens. The bacchae were ecstatic and irrational, indulging into music, dance, and lasciviousness. Ecstasy: an overwhelming feeling of joy or rapture, a sort of trance or rapture such as is supposed to accompany religious, prophetic, or mystical inspiration, methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Cadmus is the brother of europa( and like her was born in phoenica). After zeus abducted her, he went to look for her, but was unable to find her. Instead he traveled to greece and founded the city of thebes.