CLA204H5 Chapter 11-12: Classical Mythology Reading Notes Chapter 11 & 12
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Chapter 11- myths of fertility ii pages 262-290. Dionysus, god of wine, the life force and the instinctive side of personality. Dionysus was known as bacchus was the god who taught the art of turning the juice of grapes into wine, their everyday drink. He was god of fertility and encourages the burgeoning of everything alive: plants animals, and human beings. Thick luscious ivy was a sign of his presence. Wore leopard skin and panthers pulled his chariot. Phallus and horns of a bull were his emblems. Apollodorus has the most extended single account of his adventures and ovid tells some important myths. Best known source is the bacchae, a play by euripides written about 406 bc just before. Zeus fell in love with princess of the house of thebes and daughter of phoenician. Came disguised as a mortal and semele was soon pregnant.
