HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Parodos, Pentheus, Sparagmos
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There are scholars who found similarities between dionysus and. He is the god of vegetation (the male equivalent of demeter) vines and grapes. It is located in the middle of birds and trees, etc. Spiritual release through music and dance on the mountains. Women in greece were irrational characters and fixed by men. Possessed means unable to see things by what they are. They become possessed by the god of their followers. Sparagmos the tearing apart of flesh, animal or human flesh mistaken for human flesh, then eating the flesh raw. Because he stands for the dissolution of boundaries. Psychologically, dionysus signifies free emotional life unimpeded by the restrictions of family, society, religion, and morality. (physis-nature vs nomos-law) Culturally, he confuses distinctions between city and wild, mortal and immortal, man and beast, male and female. Greeks see things black and white, you are either friend or enemy. In the theatre, the actor fuses himself with the character he represents.
