CLAS104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13-14: Cithaeron, Euripides, Pentheus
12 Feb 2018
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Chapter 13 - dionysus, pan, echo, and narcissus. Hera convinced semele to trick zeus into revealing himself to her and. Zeus , disguised as a mortale loved semele , daughter of cadmus was burned to cinder by the splendor and lightning flash of zeus. Zeus saved the unborn child and sewed him into his thigh. Was brought up by nymphs and semele"s sister, ino , on mountain nysa. Came to greece from phrygia and thrace , and latecomer to the olympian. Brings happiness and salvation to those who accept. Brings madness and death to those who do not pantheon. Fundamental for understanding dionysus and his worship divinity and religion. Angry when he arrived at thebes because people didn"t believe his. Sisters of semele thought he was pregnant by some mortal. Cadmus induced semele to say zeus was his real rather. Through his power, women of thebes have become possessed by frenzy and dressed in fawn skins.
