GDES-220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pentheus, Euripides, Dithyramb

• School: American University
• Department: Art: Graphic Design
• Course: GDES-220
• Professor: Brandon Thompson

Document Summary

Contrasts with the female in what is associated with him is moisture: wine, blood, semen, and sap. In older representations dionysus is younger and less masculine. Symbols include: ivy, grape vine, figs, pine pitch and pine cones, leopard, panther, phallus, bull and goat. Asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith the east, the (cid:862)other(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ild(cid:374)ess (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)he(cid:374) you drink wine you lose yourself. Chorus use in tragedies is also related with worshipping dionysus. His (cid:374)a(cid:373)e is fou(cid:374)d o(cid:374) li(cid:374)ear b ta(cid:271)lets, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h means that he is around in greece around 1200-1400, signifying that he is a new comer from the east. Dio(cid:374)ysus is k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as the (cid:862)releaser(cid:863) a(cid:374)d he e(cid:374)(cid:272)ourages the loss of i(cid:374)hi(cid:271)itio(cid:374)s through dri(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g wine. You take him into yourself by drinking him. He inspires enthusiasmos = inspired by the god to go crazy and lose rational thinking. staff with ivy around. Satyr = man with horse and/or goat aspects.