Dionysus
| Dionysus | |
|---|---|
| God o the Grape Harvest, Winemakkin, Wine, Ritual Madness, Releegious Ecstasy, Growthiness an Theatre. | |
 2nd-century Roman statue of Dionysus, after a Hellenistic model (ex-coll. Cardinal Richelieu, Louvre)[1] | |
| Abode | Munt Olympus |
| Symbol | Thyrsus, grapevine, leopard skin, panther, cheetah |
| Personal Information | |
| Consort | Ariadne |
| Parents | Zeus an Semele |
| Siblins | Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen o Troy, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos, the Muses, the Graces |
| Roman equivalent | Bacchus, Liber |
Dionysus (/daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/; Greek: Διόνυσος, Dionysos) is the god o the grape harvest, winemakkin an wine, o ritual madness, growthiness,[2][3] theatre an releegious ecstasy in Greek meethologie. Alcohol, especially wine, played a important role in Greek cultur wi Bacchus bein a important raison for this life style.[4] His name, thocht tae be a theonym in Linear B tablets as di-wo-nu-so (KH Gq 5 inscription),[5] shows that he mey hae been wirshippit as early as c. 1500–1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks; ither traces o the Dionysian-teep cult hae been foond in auncient Minoan Crete.[6] His oreegins are uncertain, an his cults teuk mony shapes; some are describit bi auncient sources as Thracian, ithers as Greek.[7][8][9] In some cults, he arrives frae the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in ithers, frae Ethiopie in the Sooth. He is a god o epiphany, "the god that comes", an his "foreignness" as an arrivin ootsider-god mey be inherent an essential tae his cults. He is a major, popular figur o Greek meethologie an releegion, an is includit in some leets o the twal Olympians. Dionysus wis the last god tae be acceptit intae Mt. Olympus. He wis the youngest an the anerly ane tae hae a mortal mither.[10] His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theatre. He is an example of a dying god.[11][12]
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- ↑ Another variant, from the Spanish royal collection, is at the Museo del Prado, Madrid: illustration.
- ↑ Hedreen, Guy Michael. Silens in Attic Black-figure Vase-painting: Myth and Performance. University of Michigan Press. 1992. ISBN 9780472102952. page 1
- ↑ James, Edwin Oliver. The Tree of Life: An Archaeological Study. Brill Publications. 1966. page 234. ISBN 9789004016125
- ↑ Gately, Iain (2008). Drink. Gotham Books. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-592-40464-3.
- ↑ Raymoure, K.A. (2 November 2012). "Khania Linear B Transliterations". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean. "Possible evidence of human sacrifice at Minoan Chania". Archaeology News Network. 2014. Raymoure, K.A. "Khania KH Gq Linear B Series". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean. "KH 5 Gq (1)". DĀMOS: Database of Mycenaean at Oslo. University of Oslo.
- ↑ Kerenyi 1976.
- ↑ Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought, Allsworth press, 2002, pp. 118–121. Google Books preview
- ↑ Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: an interpretation, Cambridge University Press, 1980, p.109 Google Books preview
- ↑ Zofia H. Archibald, in Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (Ed.) Ancient Greeks west and east, Brill, 1999, p.429 ff.Google Books preview
- ↑ Sacks, David; Murray, Oswyn; Brody, Lisa R. (1 Januar 2009). Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438110202. Retrieved 20 Apryle 2013.
- ↑ Dionysus, greekmythology.com
- ↑ Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion, 1985 pp. 64, 132
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Further readin[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Livy, History of Rome, Book 39:13, Description of banned Bacchanalia in Rome and Italy
- Detienne, Marcel, Dionysos at Large, tr. by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-674-20773-4. (Originally in French as Dionysos à ciel ouvert, 1986)
- Albert Henrichs, Between City and Country: Cultic Dimensions of Dionysus in Athens and Attica, (April 1, 1990). Department of Classics, UCB. Cabinet of the Muses: Rosenmeyer Festschrift. Paper festschrift18.
- Seaford, Richard. Dionysos (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World). Oxford: Routledge, 2006 ISBN 0-415-32487-4.
- Taylor-Perry, Rosemarie The God Who Comes: Dionysian Mysteries Revisited. New York: Algora Press, 2003 ISBN 0-87586-214-4.
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