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The Apollonian and the Dionysian are philosophical and literary concepts represented by a duality between the figures of Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.Its popularization is widely attributed to the work The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, though the terms had already been in use prior to this, [1] such as in the writings of poet Friedrich Hölderlin, historian Johann ...
Dionysus named the ancient city of Nicaea after her. [270] In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, Eros made Dionysus fall in love with Aura, a virgin companion of Artemis, as part of a ploy to punish Aura for having insulted Artemis. Dionysus used the same trick as with Nicaea to get her fall asleep, tied her up, and then raped her.
Book 38 – Two omens foretell Dionysus' victory, first a solar eclipse and then an eagle (i.e. Dionysus) throwing a serpent (i.e. Deriades) to the river. The first of them is interpreted by the seer Idmon, the second by Hermes, who tells at length the story of Phaethon from his genealogy to his death and catasterism.
Mosaic of Dionysus from Antioch Nonnus's principal work is the 48-book epic Dionysiaca , the longest surviving poem from classical antiquity . [ 6 ] It has 20,426 lines composed in Homeric Greek and dactylic hexameters , the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus , his expedition to India, and his triumphant return.
Nereus (Νηρέας), the old man of the sea, and the god of the sea's rich bounty of fish; Nereids (Νηρηΐδες). Sea nymphs, the 50 daughters of Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. Arethusa (Αρετούσα), a daughter of Nereus who was transformed into a fountain; Dynamene (Δυναμένη), associated with the might and power of great ...
The Derveni krater, height: 90.5 cm (35 ½ in.), 4th century BC. The Dionysian Mysteries of mainland Greece and the Roman Empire are thought to have evolved from a more primitive initiatory cult of unknown origin (perhaps Thracian or Phrygian) which had spread throughout the Mediterranean region by the start of the Classical Greek period.
Pseudanor (Greek: Ψευδάνωρ pseudo-+ anēr "false man", metaphorically an "effeminate man") was a Macedonian epithet applied to Dionysus.Other Macedonian appellations to the god were Agrios (Ἄγριος) [1] "wild" (as god of the countryside) and Erikryptos (Ἐρίκρυπτος) "completely hidden" (as the god hidden from the frenzied women roaming the countryside by the ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Epithets of Dionysus" The following 11 pages are in this ...