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Many modern sources identify this "Orphic Dionysus" with the god Zagreus, though this name does not seem to have been used by any of the ancient Orphics, who simply called him Dionysus. [233] As pieced together from various ancient sources, the reconstructed story, usually given by modern scholars, goes as follows. [ 234 ]
Dionysus punished them by changing all three of them into bats. Myrmex ("ant") Ant: Athena Myrmex was a girl favoured by the goddess Athena. When she claimed to have come up with the plough, that Athena had actually invented, the goddess turned her into an ant. Naïs and her lovers: Fishes Herself
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 ...
In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses.These deities represented the fundamental forces and physical foundations of the world and were generally not actively worshipped, as they, for the most part, were not given human characteristics; they were instead personifications of places or abstract concepts.
Orpheus was said to have invented the Mysteries of Dionysus. [1] It is possible that water divination was an important aspect of worship within the cult. [2] The cult of Dionysus traces back to at least Mycenaean Greece, since his name is found on Mycenean Linear B tablets as ππΊππ° (di-wo-nu-so).
Chronos is said to have created the silver egg of the universe out of which burst the first-born deity Phanes, or Phanes-Dionysus. [4] Phanes was a male god; in an original Orphic Hymn he is named as "Lord Priapos ", [ 5 ] although others consider him androgynous .
A statue of Neptune in the city of Bristol.. Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea and the brother of Zeus, Hades, Hera, Hestia and Demeter.Beckoned by the curse of Polyphemus, his one-eyed giant son, he attempts to make Odysseus' journey home much harder than it actually needs to be.
The Bacchae (/ Λ b æ k iΛ /; Ancient Greek: ΒΞ¬κχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes / Λ b æ k Ι n t s, b Ι Λ k æ n t s,-Λ k ΙΛ n t s /) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.