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| Often associated with exotic wild animals, grape/ivy vines (vegetative fertility as they are fast-growing) |
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| "mad" women who made up part of Dionysus' troop |
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| goat-human; Dionysus’ connection with animal nature, man’s animal nature |
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| Drove Dionysus and his followers into the sea, rescued by Nereid Thetis; Dionysus punished him by driving him into a state of intoxication when he tried to rape his own mother, attempted to hack grapevines apart/actually hacked apart rest of his family as he was delusional; thrown to his man-eating horses to purify the land; PERCEPTIONS |
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| Native city (Semele was Theban princess); plot of Bacchae; This person thought Dionysus' cult was a false religion, Dionysus caused earthquake causing jail to collapse that he had been thrown in to; Dionysus seduced him by making him curious about these mysteries and rites, offering to dress him as a woman so that he could spy on the women, the women thought that he was a wild animal that they could capture and eat raw; his own mother captures him and killed him |
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| Dionysus well-received by this person; taught grape-growing and wine-fermentation to him and daughter Erigone; this man gave wine to neighbors and made them drunk, thought he poisoned them, they beat him to death and threw his corpse into a well; when Erigone found out, she hung herself on a nearby tree, their pet dog (Maera) committed suicide by jumping into a well; Dionysus punished rest of people by driving the women mad (women were more susceptible to effects of wine) and started hanging themselves; consulted Oracle who said they needed to punish the murderers of this man |
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| daughters of King Minyas of Orchomenos, Dionysus drove them mad, causing them to tear apart their own children; changed them into bats |
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(early March): 3 days
1. Pithoigia (opening of the Jars): first tasting of the wine from the previous fall’s harvest, wine from all over Athens taken to sanctuary of Dionysus, make libations to Dionysus
2. Choes (jugs)
a. drinking contest = entertainment of Orestes at Athens: everyone given a jug (1/2 gallon); children were given much smaller jugs if they wanted to compete; supposed to maintain absolute silence during contest to see who could finish first; myth has to do with the entertainment of Orestes, he had murdered his own mother, came to Athens seeking purification, Athenians obligated to be hospitable, felt like they could not trust him, so this contest is like the hosting of Orestes; all temples closed on this day, no one could swear an oath by these gods, no business conducted
b. day of the ghosts: people went around wearing masks
c. Dionysus’ marriage to the Basilinna = Dionysus and Ariadne: Dionysus enter Athens on something in the shape of a ship, Dionysus as a scarecrow figure, symbolically married to wife of city’s chief magistrate; re-enact marriage of Dionysus and Ariadne
3. Chytrol (pots): boil grain and honey, pour into ground for Hermes Psychopomp (Hermes that ushers souls of the dead), getting rid of all of the ghosts that haunted city previous day, mixture also consumed by men and women as they were still alive; unmarried girls put on a swing and would swing over a pit, representing a symbolic reenactment of hanging of Erigone (hung herself on tree over hanging well where her father was thrown) |
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Sculpture – visual, detached, intellectual; INTELLECT/ INTELLECTUAL
Dreams
Prophecy
Deeper vision
Individualization
Society
Political Order
Emotional control
Temperance
Beauty
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Music – under control of performers, involves appealing to emotions of audience, emotions manipulated and controlled; PARTICIPATION
Intoxication
Orgies
Ignorance
Group-Consciousness
Social Release
Vegetative fertility
Intense feeling
Extremes
Suffering
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