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In his letter To the Cynic Heracleios, Julian wrote "I have heard many people say that Dionysus was a mortal man because he was born of Semele and that he became a god through his knowledge of theurgy and the Mysteries, and like our lord Heracles for his royal virtue was translated to Olympus by his father Zeus." However, to Julian, the myth of ...
The Church Father Clement of Alexandria writes that Orpheus and Jesus are similar in that they have both been subject to admiration on account of their "songs", [141] but insists that Orpheus misused his gift of eloquence by persuading people to worship idols and "tie themselves to temporal things"; [141] whereas Jesus, the singer of the "New ...
Dionysus, the god of wine, theatre, and ecstasy in ancient Greek religion, has been compared to many other deities, both by his classical worshippers and later scholars.. These deities include figures outside of ancient Greek religion, such as Jesus, [1] Osiris, [2] Shiva, [3] and Tammuz, [4] as well as figures inside of ancient Greek religion, such as Had
The term's etymology is connected with the word θρῖον "fig leaf" by Aemilius Luetcke (1829) who refers to the epithet Συκίτης "of the fig tree" of Dionysus. An old hypothesis is that the word is borrowed from Phrygian or Pelasgian, and literally means "Dreischritt", i. e., "three-step", compare iamb and dithyramb, but H. S. Versnel ...
Refers to himself as a "mule" meaning "bastard" ("mul ch'i' fui"). Inf. XXIV, 125. Prophesies the triumph in Florence of the Black Guelphs over the Whites. Inf. XXIV, 143–151. Swears against God while performing an obscene gesture (a "fig", the insertion of a thumb between the first and second fingers of a closed fist). Inf. XXV, 1–18.
Paris Olympics organizers issued an apology on Sunday after a scene depicting the Greek god Dionysus drew criticism for allegedly mocking Leonardo da Vinci's painting “The Last Supper,” which ...
In the controversial book The Jesus Mysteries, Osiris-Dionysus is claimed to be the basis of Jesus as a syncretic dying-and-rising god, with early Christianity beginning as a Greco-Roman mystery. [4] The book and its "Jesus Mysteries thesis" have not been accepted by mainstream scholarship, with Bart Ehrman stating that the work is unscholarly. [5]
Many katabatic figures (including Hercules, Dionysus, and Jesus Christ) also undergo apotheosis; Dying-and-rising god, a mythological trope in which a god dies and then returns from the Afterlife and/or is reborn, sometimes cyclically. Examples include Dionysus, Persephone, Ishtar, and Jesus Christ. Kenosis