CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Senatus Consultum De Bacchanalibus, Oeneus, Anius
26 Feb 2016
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Artemis" wildness is shared in the male deity: The god of juice that comes out of living things: maple syrup, blood, nectar. Semele is a princess of thebes, hera"s trick results in her death: proves zeus"s nomos. Dionysus has the wild side of zeus that zeus never portrays. Given to semele"s sister ino or to nymphs to hide him from hera. Mount nysa: hermes brought him here, hidden as a goat- hidden from hera. Dionysus is rejected from his theban family (ino) and from the olympians (hera) Was kidnapped by pirates as a youth: he appears to most as a pretty youth. When wronged he displays his power forcefully. Dionysus travels with his followers from greece to india and back. He associated with other cults: cybele: mother goddess of phrygia (central turkey) was a friend. The greeks often identified her with rhea, zeus" mother. The orphic dionysus myth: zagreus, an alternate myth. Hera arranged for some titans to kill zagreus.
