This document provides information about Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, ritual madness, fertility, and theatre. It discusses his character and functions, symbols, love affairs, cult and representations, birth and childhood, and stories. Specifically, it notes that Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele, born after Zeus rescued him from his mother's burnt womb. It outlines Dionysus' childhood and upbringing by various figures after being rescued multiple times from Hera. The document also shares stories about Dionysus and pirates and the king Midas.

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DIONYSUS
( Bachuss)
Tuğçe Karaslan
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02.05.2012
Instructor: Seval Çakır

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Character and Functions
Symbols
Love affairs
Cult and Representations
Birth and childhood
Stories

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Character and Functions

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Symbols
• Tiger
• Leopard
• Ass
• Grape
• Ivy

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Love Affairs
• Had children with Aphrotide and many
nymphs but at the end he married the
Ariedne.

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Cult and Represantatıon Sometimes
as bearded
mature man
sometimes
at his youth.
nebris

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Birth and Childhood

8. • Euripides, Bacchae 245 ff :
"Dionysos is a god . . . once stitched into
the thigh of Zeus--Dionysos, his mother
burnt up by the flame of lightning."

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• Zeus fell in love with Semele and slept
with her, promising her anything she
wanted, and keeping it all from Hera. But
Semele was deceived by Hera into asking
Zeus to come to her as he came to Hera
during their courtship.

10. • So Zeus, unable to refuse, arrived in her
bridal chamber in a chariot with lightning
flashes and thunder, and sent a
thunderbolt at her. Semele died of fright,
and Zeus grabbed from the fire her six-
month aborted baby, which he sewed into
his thigh.

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Childhood
Then In order to protect Dionysus from
Hera , Zeus send him to Ino -sister of
Semele
Hera struck Ino and her husband with
madness.
Zeus save him for second time and send
him to Nymphs of mount Nysa with the
help of Hermes.

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• Grown in the hands of Nymphs, Muses
and Silenus
Dionysus became very grateful to nature.

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• He invented wine but without moderation .
• As Hera strike him with madness the
drinker was striken with the disease too-
being drunk .
• After drinking too much wine he became
mad and began to travel around the world
with a cortege of Satyrs and Nymphs.

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Cortege of Dionysus

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He delivered vine to
where he went.

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Stories
• One day o group of pirates see Dionysus
• They kidnap him in order to sell as slave.
• When they try to tie him , the ropes become untied this
repeated again and again.
• the vessel was full of wine and he become a lion and
tear the pirates into pieces, except one who have mercy
for him.

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• Story 2- When he is travelling in Phrygia
the king Midas is very hospitable to him
and his fellows. He asked Midas a wish to
make true. He wants everything he
touched become gold. Dionysus make
the wish true but Midas become regret
immediately because he even can not eat
by his own.

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• Dionysus pitied him and send him to river
Pactolus( River Sart in the west of Turkey)
purify himself.So, the river flows with gold
dust.