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...This tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agauë, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) for refusing to worship him....

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...Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, and before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to b...

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...The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agavë, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) for refusing to worship him....

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...)............................................................................................................................75 Bacchus (bac ́-cus) [Dionysus]................................................................................................................75 Battus (bat ́-tus).....................................................................................

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... looked upon with desire, instantly yielded to him even without the assistance of Dionysus’ enchanted wine. Apollo nodded to her to begin. Raising... ...Earth before returning to Olympus. The voice in her mind was all too familiar. Dionysus! What are you doing here? Get out of my mind. Certainl... ...or spirits, sister. Have a drink; it will put you in a better humor.” “I’m fine, Dionysus. I’m about to go home. I don’t need any of your wine.” S... ...ped upon her conversation with Apollo? She sighed. Somehow, she did not think so. Dionysus in his state of permanent intoxication could hardly have... ...ld hardly have moved so stealthily, nor concealed his retinue of women followers. Dionysus hiccupped loudly, causing the vines around his neck to b... ...ing such things. “I’m not sure. Perhaps.” She wondered, for a fleeting moment if Dionysus were near by, taking a perverse delight in watching them... ...e recalled the tell-tale hiccups, that waft of laughter of a few moments ago. But Dionysus was not known for his stealth, surely she would have hea... ...e trees, thunderclaps echoed from the mountains and lightning streaked the sky. “Dionysus!” “You called, oh mighty, Zeus?” Oh, Hades. Was her wh... ... bordering on compassion. “Do you know of Apollo’s whereabouts?” Zeus bellowed. Dionysus gulped and shook his head. “Perhaps he has gone to Delph...

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... same is true with any modern historian trying to decipher the meaning of the Dionysus cults, who had their own special words. So too is the prose o... ...unning destructive lies. He was the first example of the God Bacchus, the God Dionysus. He spent his entire life doing nothing but enjoying effete ...

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...er the divine protection of the Son of the Wine-jar, as 5 George Meredith Dionysus is made to proclaim himself by Aristophanes. Our second Charles wa...

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...s from Araethyrea, where he dwelt in affluence by the favour of his father Dionysus, in his home by the springs of Asopus. (ll. 118 121) From Argos c... ...sipyle, of crimson hue. The Graces with their own hands had wrought it for Dionysus in sea girt Dia, and he gave it to his son Thoas thereafter, and T... ...acians. For he came to the abode of Nausithous and to Macris, the nurse of Dionysus, to cleanse himself from the deadly murder of his children; here h...

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...may have had any or all of these reasons. HERMOGENES: What is the meaning of Dionysus and Aphrodite? SOCRATES: Son of Hipponicus, you ask a solemn que...

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...f her chair; the other held up an inverted human skull, into which a young Dionysus, smooth, brown and sidelong as the St. John of the Louvre, poured ...

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...ng on itself the Dionysic ecstasy, Southern Europe is break- ing free from Dionysus, from the triumphal affirmation of life over death, immortality th...

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...he suicide of Ajax. “Galen appears uncertain whether Asklepius (as well as Dionysus) was originally a god, or whether he was first a man and then beca...

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... he renewed the flame of his lance with a gesture which made one think of Dionysus of Crete.* But I, being only a little child, was terrified by this...

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... he saw . The ruin grew vivid with his words. He showed him the theatre of Dionysus and explained in what order the people sat, and how beyond they co...

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...oned there, and then raised a wall to invest the castle. Seven days after, Dionysus arrived by sea, and got into the citadel, and about the same time ...

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...s a simple lit- eracy form can be developed. The Hymns to “Pan” (xix), to “Dionysus” (xxvi), to “Hestia and Hermes” (xxix), seem to have been designed... ...are not preserved. First, apparently, in the collection stood the “Hymn to Dionysus,” of which only two fragments now survive. While it appears to hav... ...and the seventh century seems to be the latest date possible. The “Hymn to Dionysus” relates how the god was seized by pirates and how with many manif... ... have followed the arrangement of these scholars, num- bering the Hymns to Dionysus and to Demeter, I and II respectively: to place “Demeter” after “H... ... I and II respectively: to place “Demeter” after “Hermes,” and the Hymn to Dionysus at the end of the collection seems to be merely perverse. (16) “Gr... ...r for five, and on the sixth day draw off into vessels the gifts of joyful Dionysus. But when the Pleiades and Hy- ades and strong Orion begin to set ... ... of Cadmus was joined with him in love and bare him a splendid son, joyous Dionysus, — a mortal woman an immortal son. And now they both are gods. (ll... ...a, youngest of the Graces, his buxom wife. (ll. 947-949) And golden-haired Dionysus made brown- haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife:... ...se fell mad, as Hesiod states, because they would not receive the rites of Dionysus. Probus (17) on Vergil, Eclogue vi. 48: These (the daughters of Pr...

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...o draw milk and honey from the rivers when they are under the in fluence of Dionysus but not when they are in their right mind. And the soul of the l...

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...y adding the term to which the proper word is relative. Thus the cup is to Dionysus as the shield to Ares. The cup may, therefore, be called ‘the shie... ...us as the shield to Ares. The cup may, therefore, be called ‘the shield of Dionysus,’ and the shield ‘the cup of Ares.’ Or, again, as old age is to li...

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...ng you and I will have to determine who bears off the palm of wisdom—of this Dionysus shall be the judge; but at present you are better occupied with ... ...nias; and there can be no doubt of Aristophanes, whose whole concern is with Dionysus and Aphrodite; nor will any one disagree of those whom I see aro...

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... is Thetis, wise With wisdom world renowned; for in her bowers She sheltered Dionysus, chased by might Of murderous Lycurgus from the earth. Yea, and ... ...dead shall he abide, but dwell With Gods, as doth the might of Herakles, And Dionysus ever fair. Not him Dread doom shall prison in darkness evermore... ...caon from his hands. These had Hephaestus fashioned for his gift To glorious Dionysus, when he brought Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy 69 His b...

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...iding over them; the first was the inspiration of Apollo, the second that of Dionysus, the third that of the Muses, the fourth that of Aphrodite and E...

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...glades Of the Eleusinian Queen Haunt of revelers, men and maids, Dionysus, thou art seen. Where Ismenus rolls his waters, Where the Dra...

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...and tattoo civilization is to Tottenham Court Road. The young king Ptolemy Dionysus (aged ten) is at the top of the steps, on his way in through the l...

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...et his brothers, who gave the row of tripods which stand in the precincts of Dionysus, come with him; or you may summon Aristocrates, the son of Scell...

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...en now let us mingle, Protarchus, at the same time offering up a prayer to Dionysus or Hephaestus, or whoever is the god who presides over the ceremon...

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...W.B. YEATS TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY I I SAW a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And lay the heart upon h...