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Dionysus

Dionysus. Wine Male principal of fertility Encouraged growth of all living things: plants, animals, humans Thick ivy – sign of his presence Leopard skin Panther drawn chariot Emblems - Phallus and horns of a bull Madness. Two Homeric Poems The Bacchae Euripedes ~406 BC Apollodorus

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Dionysus

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  1. Dionysus • Wine • Male principal of fertility • Encouraged growth of all living things: plants, animals, humans • Thick ivy – sign of his presence • Leopard skin • Panther drawn chariot • Emblems - Phallus and horns of a bull • Madness

  2. Two Homeric Poems • The Bacchae • Euripedes • ~406 BC • Apollodorus • Ovid

  3. SEMELE • ZEUS • HERA • INO • ATHAMA • Orchomenus, Boeotia • Learchus • Melicertes

  4. a • Nysa • Cybele • Phrygia • BACCHAE • MAENADS • Thyrsus • satyrs

  5. Ariadne

  6. Resistance to the God • Hellespont, Thrace • Lycurgus, Edonians • Orchomenus, Boeotian Plain • Minyas • MINYADS: Arsippê, Leucippê & Alcithoê • Argos • Proteus • PROETIDS • Melampus • Bias

  7. Dionysus & Ariadne

  8. More Girls Behaving Badly

  9. Dionysus and the Pirates • Etruscan • Morals • Do not offend the gods. • Stupidity is painful. • Stupidity is ESPECIALLY painful when it causes one to offend a god.

  10. Dionysus in Thebes • Euripedes’ The Bacchae. • Thebes • SEMELE • AGAVÊ • AUTONOË • INO • Cadmus • PENTHEUS • Tiresis

  11. Pentheus Gets His • Aka. Karma from the Gods is the Karma of Pain! • Morals 1-3 See pirate story. • Moral 4. If it can cause a city full of people to go raving mad, best NOT to offend it. If stupidity has not been painful yet, it soon will be. • Moral 5. Even when the gods have WON they still can hold a grudge.

  12. Dionysus & Ariadne:Light & Dark Skin

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