CLASSIC 45A Lecture 23: Dionysus/Bacchus-The borderline
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Likes music because it"s hard to focus on them individually: appreciates harmonious whole, greek tragedy is produced by the tension between the apollonian and the dionysian, what happens when rationality and conflict clash. The stick: thyrsus= it"s a plant with ivy or grapes at the top. It"s his symbol, the symbol of his power: lion; usually lion or leopard, or bull, usually crown or reef around his head, has a beard. General information: zeus and semele>dionysus (according to a version of the myth, the titans dismember of the baby d but zeus reconstitutes him)-sparagmos, his mother disputes his divinity. Liquid seeds: focused more on wine: women: solid, men: liquid (liquid fertility)-->wine, so women for demeter, men for dionysus, theater and masks. Dionysus (and apollo because wisdom is also related to seeing: dionysus: the kind of seeing when you go to the theatre, Pictures: birth of dionysus, on the lid of a roman sarcophagus.
