CLA 210 UNITS 3 and 4 Questions and Answers
Eleusinian Mysteries
-very important ritual/mystery cult
-open to anyone (men and women)
Agrarian Festival
festival practiced by the members of the eleusinian cult
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Dionysus Ritual - answer an acceptable time in which ordinary self conduct is lost
and divine madness takes over.
cult imported from eastern regions
Dionysus Birth - answer -Zeus impregnates semele
-Hera, diguised as an old woman, convinces semele to ask Zeus to see his true form
-Semele is burned alive but DIonysus is rescued and sowed into Zeus' thigh
-Hermes takes Dionysus to Semele's sister Ino and king Arthamas
-Hera drives them mad and they kill their families
-Zeus changes D into a goat and then takes him to the nymphs where he learned to turn
juice to wine.
, Bacchae - answer female followers of Dionysus
Bacchantes - answer male and female followers of dionysus
Maenads - answer "raging women"
satyrs - answer male followrs, .5human/.5horse,
always erect, comical
silenus - answer old, fat, ugly satyr
Return of Dionysus - answer -Midas requests a "golden touch"
-Brings his cult to Greece where any attempt to resist him meets disaster
(lycurus,minyads,proetids)
Dionysus and Pirates - answer -kidnapped by Etruscan pirates
-when they tie him up, the rope come undone
-the boat fills up with wine and the mast turns to ivy
-D turns into a lion and kills the laptan, and the sailors jump off and are turned into
dolphins
Bacchae Stories - answer - most are tragedies of this set of plays (by eurepides)
-Semele's sisters Agane, Autonoe, and Ino deny that she slept with zeus and that
semele was destroyed for telling a lie
-They are driven to madness as punishment
-King Pentheus, who champions reason over order, continues to oppose the god
-Pentheus locks D up and then after a thunderclap, D appears w/o chains and Pentheus
goes into a rage
-A messenger comes in and tells all the things that the 3 sisters have done, but
Pentheus doesn't belive
-D convinces Pentheus to see for himself
Themes in Dionysus Myth - answer -associations w/ water
-counterpart of Demeter (dry grain)
-life force : blood, semen, sap, milk
Destruction but new life
-reluctance to accept irrational, unseen parts of life
Cult of Dionysus - answer -He was present among mortals
-this sudden and violend arrival through greek cities is present in most myths
-Devotees, drank wine, dance to drums, and tore apart animals to eat
-women are his closest followers
-cult was sometimes oppressed by government
-symbolic of death and resurrection
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