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An inscription found on a stone stele (c. 340 BC), found at Delphi, contains a paean to Dionysus, which describes the travels of Dionysus to various locations in Greece where he was honored. [40] From Thebes , where he was born, he first went to Delphi where he displayed his "starry body", and with "Delphian girls" took his "place on the folds ...
The various colours of the violet (red, purple, white) changed on account of Io's life, red for the blushing maiden, purple for the cow, white for the stars. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Hera then sent Argus Panoptes , a giant who had 100 eyes, to watch Io and prevent Zeus from visiting her, and so Zeus sent Hermes to distract and eventually slay Argus.
Io (partially) Violet: Gaia When Zeus turned his mistress Io into a cow to hide her from Hera, Gaia pitied the girl and created the violet so Io could feed from it, and thus the flower "sprung from her from whom it has its name", going with folk etymology for Io's name and the Greek word for violet, ion. Despite that, the two words are not ...
Hesiod identifies Paeon as an individual deity: "Unless Phoebus Apollo should save him from death, or Paean himself who knows the remedies for all things." [10] [11] In time, Paeon (more usually spelled Paean) became an epithet of Apollo, in his capacity as a god capable of bringing disease and therefore propitiated as a god of healing. [12]
In an almost identical line (X.391) that suggests a formulaic expression, Achilles tells the Myrmidons to sing the paean after the death of Hector. [5] To discover the relation between Paean or Paeon, the healer-god, and paean in the sense of "song", it is necessary to identify the connection between ritual chant and the shaman's healing arts. [6]
He was known to sign letters as both Dionysus and "The Crucified" in this period of his life. In The Hellenic Religion of the Suffering God (1904), and Dionysus and Early Dionysianism (1921), the poet Vyacheslav Ivanov elaborates the theory of Dionysianism , tracing the origins of literature, and tragedy in particular, to ancient Dionysian ...
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The Nurture of Bacchus or The Infancy of Bacchus: 1626–1627 c. 75 x 97 cm: London, National Gallery: 52/133 Venus and Mercury, made up of Venus and Mercury (image, left) and Concert of loves: 1626–1627 c. 78 x 85 cm et 57 x 51 cm: Original composition known through a drawing in the Louvre. Cut up during the 18th century. [12]