Dionyysus Research Paper

Dionysus was the youngest of all god but created one of the things many adults praise, wine. Dionysus, god of wine, traveled around teaching people how to created wine. One day he was captured by foolish pirates who did not believe he was a god. To their surprise they were thrown off a boat and revolutionized into dolphins moments later.

Dionysos is defined as the god of wine, festivity, vegetation, pleasure, and divine intoxication. In the Hope Dionysos, he is depicted as a peaceful and joyful figure that represent happiness in Greek mythology. The statue is sculpted from marble as its medium and is classified as a stone

Dionysus, on the other hand, invents the timbrel, it is a drum beaten to furious, erratic rhythms that express his compulsive nature. Apollo retains abstract intellect, he is an educator of young men, and promotes logical and rational thought. Dionysus desires irrational power, he liberates humans to explore there potential for emotional and behavioral extremes, he allows his unconscious to flourish, and he is embodied by spontaneous emotion. Greek tradition said that each year Apollo left his sanctuary at Delphi to live with the Hyperboreans, a mythical tribe inhabiting the extreme north. When he did that, Dionysus reigned in Delphi for the 3 winter months. During these months a noticeable change would come over people. Spontaneity came over everyone, and the concept of rational thought would be lost until Apollo's return. Obviously Dionysus was much more liberal when compared to Apollo.

Dionysus was a wanderer. During these journeys he explored the world. On these journeys he came across many different people and taught them how to keep their vines healthy. On one of his journeys he was captured by pirates. While he was in bondage of these pirates they tried to tie him down. Wherever the rope would touch him it would fall apart. In

This sculpture was given the title, “Dionysus,” and is dated at 50 – 150 A.D. During that period, the Roman Empire went through a civil war, multiple rebellions, a couple disastrous fires, the building of the Colosseum, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the peak of Roman military expansion and thirteen different Emperors. One of which started the Flavian Dynasty, which would bring stability to the empire that was crumbling because of financial strife. With all of these events happening, good and bad, it seems difficult to pin point the inspiration or message behind this sculpture. But if you break that period of time down into parts, it may be easier to get a feel for what the artist was feeling so strongly about, whether it was inspired by

Dionysus has a very diverse personality, and his story is an emotional rollercoaster. He has a “dual nature,” or two main personas: of rage and of joy (“Dionysus). Dionysus is very quick to get revenge as seen in almost all myths involving him. One myth involves the king of Thebes (“Dionysus - Bacchus, the Wanderer”). King Pentheus did not believe Dionysus to be a god and would not allow any female Thebes citizen to attend his parties. This angered Dionysus greatly, so he made the king appear as a wild animal to all the Theban women. They ripped him to pieces and thus Dionysus obtained adequate revenge against King Pentheus. But Dionysus’s vengeful nature did not exclude him from having any other emotions; he experiences great grief in another myth. This myth includes the hero Ikarios, whom Dionysus taught winemaking to (“Dionysus - Greek God of Wine and Festivity”). Ikarios gave the wine to some shepherds who, with no knowledge of the effects of wine, thought he had poisoned them and murdered Ikarios. Upon hearing of the death of his hero, Dionysus became mournful and placed Ikarios in the sky as the constellation Bootes. Feeling so many different emotions and having such various personas makes for Dionysus to possess a very

The essence of this mystery tradition was the embrace of one’s whole self through ecstatic ritual. Sexual longings were summoned and embraced as inherent parts of our inner self. The Cult of Dionysus were worshippers who held rites and initiations to bring them in close contact with this God. These secret rites of initiation were the other essential part of the Dionysian Mysteries. The Cult of Dionysus held the secret rites on Mount Parnassus in the winter, and these rites were exclusively for its cult members. An individual had to make the decision to enter the mystery cult through initiation. These rites celebrated Dionysus’s emergence from the underworld with orgies. They focused on the exhilaration wine produced and used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques like music and dance as part of the rituals. It’s believed that at first the songs and dances were designed to stimulate plant growth, and that the orgies were introduced to induce fertility in the vegetation fields. This cult was originally believed to be a wine cult concerned with the cultivation, life-cycle, fermentation, and disinhibiting effects of wine. These rites had a group approach, “which manifests its collective energy through the throbbing patterns of song, dance, and orgiastic sex among its individual participants” (Evans,

Dionysus was born on Mount Pramnos in the island of Ikaria on the day of the winter solstice. He was the son of Zeus and and a mortal woman by the name of Semele. Hera, who was jealous of Semele, planted seeds of doubt in Semele’s head, making her doubt that the baby really was from Zeus. At this time, Zeus was deeply in love with Semele, so he swore on the river stix to do whatever favor she asked for. So Semele asked for Zeus to reveal his true godly form to him, and Zeus, who was forced to obey her due to the oath, did as she said. As soon as Zeus revealed his true, godly

However, Semele is only a mortal, and not a Goddess. Dionysus is from Mount Olympus and lived journeying around the world, as a nomad. One interesting fact about Dionysus is he had to undergo two painful deaths before he was able to be considered a God. The Greek God Dionysus is the most important God of their time, because his rebirth after death symbolizes that he became who he is through his trials and tribulations of life, which people can relate too.

Dioneo has two possible namesakes: Dione, mother of Aphrodite (goddess of love and beauty), and Dionysus, the god of wine, partying, and reckless abandon. Either way, he's a good-time guy. He's sometimes interpreted allegorically as the Appetite/Lust part of the soul in the classical Greek three-part understanding of the soul. If you were only to look at the stories that Dioneo tells, you might be tempted to agree with this. For the most part, they're bawdy in the extreme (who can forget the hermit Rustico teaching the young Alibech how to put "the Devil" into "Hell"?) and often make the ladies worry that they've risked their reputations by inviting him along. One of Dionysus's nicknames was "the liberator," because he encouraged people to

Roman art spread as its empire throughout the Mediterranean Sea and was powerfully influenced by the Greeks and Etruscans. Dionysus with Pan, a Roman marble sculpture from 50-150 A.D, depicts Dionysus, -Bacchus to the Romans- the god of wine; and Pan, a mystical forest creature with a head and torso of a human and the legs and horns of a goat. Dionysus myth starts way back before this sculpture was made and I want to discuss how Dionysus was just an excuse people used, to get intoxicated and justify irrational behavior in his name. Dionysus back story started with the myth of his birth. He was the son of Zeus and Semele.

Dionysus is the god of wine and fertility, however also became considered a patron of the arts. Along with the variety of things Dionysus was associated with, he is associated with some important concepts. These are, being able to bring a dead person back from the underworld, rebirth after death represented through the symbol of his tending to vines to bear fruit for the making of his wine. There is also the feeling of being possessed by a greater power – which he demonstrated via the influence had from wine. This means that the greater power is the wine – that at these times a man might be greater than himself and do works he otherwise could not.

I believe that the reason that Dionysus was seen as a threat at the beginning of the story is due to the fact that he

Dionysus is an important figure of Greek mythology. He is the Olympian god of wine, vegetation, festivity and pleasure. He represents humanity’s longing for pleasure and desire to celebrate. Dionysus is also the god of hallucination, theatre, reincarnation and homosexuality. He is called: “the youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeks and Romans Bacchus (Bakchos), that is, the noisy or riotous god…” (Roman 201).

The next referenced Greek myth we come across is that of Semele and Zeus on page 84. Semele was a mortal princess who was one of many seduced by the god Zeus. She became pregnant and would give birth to the god Dionysus. Semele reaches a tragic end when she is killed by Zeus’s wife/sister Hera. Zeus however is able to save the baby Dionysus. Once Dionysus grows up, he ventures to the underworld to save his mother and arranges for her to live on Mt. Olympus with the Gods (Morford et al. 2013). Aschenbach refers to Semele and Zeus when he is reflecting on the beauty and spirituality he experiences when he looks at Tadzio (Mann 2004 pp. 84). He looks at