How To Use Dionysus In A Sentence
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Other big draws include the House of Dionysus (a 2nd century B.C. private home) and the Platform of the Stoibadeion (dedicated to the Greek god of wine and pleasure Dionysus, also known as Bacchus).
Bob Schulman: A Tale of Two Islands
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In Daphne the occasion is a festival in honor of Dionysus and as is typically the case, the chorus and dancers cavort around in Looney Tunes-inspired fashion for several minutes.
Archive 2007-08-01
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Zeus rescued the Dionysus in his thigh joints where made him a second birth.
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As his meat flies into the crowd of women, they rub it over themselves, like young fox hunters who are initiated into the hunt when they are "blooded" by the dead fox, or else like the women who follow Dionysus, god of wine: they rip their victims apart, and are so high they can't tell man from beast.
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In the first versions of the libretto, by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Roger succumbs to the prophet, who is revealed to be Dionysus; Szymanowski, however, was unsatisfied with that ending and has Roger finally abandon that cult to worship the sun, choosing a kind of Apollonian "third way" between the strict morality of the church and the license of the Dionysian revelers.
The Only Thing That Flows Is the Fountain
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The bronzes included statuary and furnishings - a statue of a winged Eros, a head of Dionysus on a herm (rectangular shaft), and large statuettes of Eros playing a lyre, of three dancing dwarfs, a satyr, an actor, Hermes, and a dog.
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Bacchanals is this, that the women of the chorus, staid and temperate for the moment, following Dionysus in his alternations, are but the paler sisters of his more wild and gloomy votaries -- the true followers of the mystical Dionysus -- the real chorus of Zagreus; the idea that their [77] violent proceedings are the result of madness only, sent on them as a punishment for their original rejection of the god, being, as I said, when seen from the deeper motives of the myth, only a "sophism" of Euripides -- a piece of rationalism of which he avails himself for the purpose of softening down the tradition of which he has undertaken to be the poet.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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In the middle, on a raised platform, Apollo plucked at his kithara, a seven-stringed lyre, while Dionysus blew on his double-reeded aulos.
PERSEPHONE THE PHONY
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It was first applied in the Theatre of Dionysus at Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC, when drama began to require more elaborate scenic arrangements.
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Always in the centre of the theatre was the altar to Dionysus; and the chorus, circling around it, were true progeny of those old agrestic singers; and the mimes had never been but for that masquerading youth.
Yet Again
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Partly it is this notion of the sublime returning to the domestic to shatter it, as in that moment when Odysseus reveals himself, less a man-of-war as he fires his arrows out into the crowd of suitors, more a terrorist or an exile returned, as Dionysus in Thebes.
On the Sublime
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(Dionysus) from the communal consciousness created by ritual dancing in early Greece: “The leader of the band of kouroi (κου̇ροι), of young men, the real actual leader, has become by remembrance and abstraction
ORIGINS OF RELIGION
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Dionysus is the libertine Id, the horny kid, the spirit of tragedy and comedy, an aesthetics of passion which stands as antithesis to an "Apollonian" aesthetics of reason.
An A-Z Of This Blog
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In a fit of fury, Pentheus attempts unsuccessfully to imprison Dionysus, who subsequently awakens Pentheus's salacious interest in the cavorting ladies.
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The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus.
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They come upon the Satyrs and their father Silenus, who have been separated from their god Dionysus and enslaved by a Cyclops.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
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It was also drunken frenzy which suggested to Nietzsche the ecstatic abandonment and orgiastic revelry of the ancient cult of Dionysus.
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Dionysus is another aspect of the joy of life and of the world and the vintaging.
The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
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There Dionysus gave them food and drink: herbs and berries and the milk of the wild goat.
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I read in my book that in ancient Greece ivy was sacred to Dionysus, the Olympian vintner who was one of the gods.
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In the middle, on a raised platform, Apollo plucked at his kithara, a seven-stringed lyre, while Dionysus blew on his double-reeded aulos.
PERSEPHONE THE PHONY
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'Twas Demoteles the choregus, O Dionysus, who dedicated this tripod, and this statue of thee, the dearest of the blessed gods.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
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His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus.
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Our women it seems have left their homes on some pretence of Bacchic worship, and are now gadding about on the wooded mountain slopes, dancing in honour of this upstart god, Dionysus
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The mosaics depict key moments in Greek mythological history - in the House of Dionysus, for example, the god of wine is shown giving the secret of viticulture to Ikarios, the King of Athens.
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For Apollo presents life in a way that is tolerable, through exclusion of the chthonic depths; while Dionysus ignores nothing, forcing us to face the fundamental terrors of existence.
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An old legend has it that King Midas hunted a long time in the woods for the wise Silenus , companion of Dionysus, without being able to catch him.
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Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone.
Pan and Satyrs
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The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus.
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Dionysus, not only is a thing of beauty in itself, but the whole interspace swept clean of dancers owns a separate charm. 192
Oeconomicus
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Their Dionysus platter is my go-to meal when working late.
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Dionysus retreated before him and even took refuge from him in the depths of the sea.
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The exhibition's first gallery, with russet and black walls, is lined with customary atrium furnishings: marble statues of men and women, gracefully draped in togas, who might represent the family's ancestors; a marble table supported by four carved griffons; and frescoes depicting Dionysus/Bacchus with his golden drinking cup and the wind god Zephyrus with outspread wings.
The Gracious Art of Living
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Hail to thee, then, Dionysus of the clustered vine, and grant to us to come gladly again to the season of vintaging, yea, and afterwards for many a year to come.
The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
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The Maenads were Dionysus' female votaries who accompanied him when he traveled.
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From another perspective, Dionysus and Pentheus are each other's alter ego.
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One side depicts Herakles, clad in spotted tunic with dagger drawn, about to slay the Nemean lion; the other, Dionysus and two nude satyrs.
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On the appointed day the Athenian public would gather at the theatre of Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis, paid their admission of two obols, and witnessed a series of plays.
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‘So you say,’ replied Dionysus, ‘but impurity is pursued by many in broad daylight.’
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Similarly the spots on the nebris of Dionysus, thought of sometimes as stars (+apo tês tôn astrôn poikilias+, Diodorus, I. 11), as well as those of his panthers, and the cloudings of the tortoise-shell of Hermes, are all significant of this light of the sky broken by cloud-shadow.
Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
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A nectarous glass of iced coffee on the terrace of the Taverna Dionysus, and I took the road to Chora Sfakion.
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Two most important categories of Nietzsches aesthetic and literature thoughts are Dionysus spirit and Apollo spirit.
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So theologian Harvey Cox, in his dithyramb on the resurrection of Dionysus, applauded us for ushering in a new age.
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The Graces with their own hands had wrought it for Dionysus in sea-girt Dia, and he gave it to his son
The Argonautica
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As the dictum numina resolves the ruptura monstrum in Aeschylus’s Oresteia, here the monstrum dicta is resolved by its complement — Dionysus as the ruptura numen, in all his transgressive glory.
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