The Greek God: The Greek God Dionysus

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

Zeus was birthed by the Titans Cronus, the god of time, and Rhea, the goddess of female fertility. He was the youngest of six siblings, which were all consumed by his father, who out of his fear of one of his children overthrowing him, “swallowed every child Rhea…[had given] birth to” (Gods, 2017). He was able to grow up without his father devouring him since his mother and Gaia had tricked Cronus into believing

The culture where the sculpture was produced was Roman. During this period of time, Dionysus was a religious cult figure at the temples. As a mythological personification, Dionysus was believed to be a youthful, joyful and effeminate figure. He was the God of wine, celebration and divine intoxication of power. The female figure standing next to him is Spes, the Goddess of hope, who brought harmony to society. Both statues together represented peace, calm and prosperity to the lands.

I chose to compare and contrast two works of art that featured the god Dionysos. Dionysos was a god of celebration and wine, promoting both the intoxicating power of wine and its social benefits for bringing people together. He was an advocate of peace and a promoter of peaceful civilization. Both The Hope Dionysos and the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons Sarcophagus represent why Dionysos was such an important and celebrated figure in mythology, which is why I chose to analyze two works of art that centered on him. My first impression of each piece was of Dionysos as a peaceful, benevolent and joyful figure. I was struck by the calm peacefulness he embodied in The Hope Dionysos and the happiness he shared on the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons Sarcophagus. Though there are many elements to compare and contrast, my analysis will show that both pieces are tributes and representations of Dionysos meaning and purpose in Roman art.

The Apollonian and the Dionysian is a philosophical concept based on different mythologies, many Philosophers and figures have invoked this dichotomy in critical and creative works. Both are one of the important themes within Nietzsche’s first major work, The Birth of Tragedy and they are terms used to designate the two central principles in Greek culture.

Some evaluations claim that the Dionysus appearing in The Bacchae is fairly true embodiment of the ideals of ancient Athens. He demands only worship and proper reverence for his name, two matters of honor that pervaded both the Greek tragedies and the pious society that viewed them. In other plays, Oedipus' consultations with Apollo and the many Choral appeals to Zeus reveal the Athenian respect for their gods, while Electra's need for revenge and Antigone's obligation to bury Polyneices both epitomize the themes of respect and dignity. Yet although Dionysus personifies these two motifs, his clashes with the rest of Athenian tradition seem to make him its true adversary.

Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, theater, fertility and ritual madness, and was worshipped for centuries, but how he was depicted varied greatly throughout time. The “Dionysus Cup,” (fig. 2) a black-figure painted clay pot, was created by the Athenian artist Exekias between 540 and 530 BCE, at the end of the Archaic period. The “Free-standing Dionysos with a panther,” (fig. 1) a marble statuette, was sculpted by an unknown artist between 150 BCE and 100 CE, at the end of the Hellenistic period, or up to the height of Roman dominance in the Mediterranean. These two images of Dionysus are dramatically different in their composition and content. The differences between these objects reflect the shifting role of Dionysus in Greek mythology

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.

Name and relationships: Dionysos is the son of Zeus and the mortal Semele. 2. Powers, specialties, and values: He is god of fertility, wine, pleasure, theater, the afterlife, and the emotions frenzy and irrationality. His followers were satyrs and maenads. 3.

After reading this story, let me be the first to say that although knowing this is a mythology class and I have read some really messed up stuff. This has to be the most messed up and horrifying this I have read all semester. Pentheus, the King of Thebes seemed very arrogant and angry towards the Gods, so when Dionysus came to him to try to convince him to not go against the Gods he was trying to open his eyes. The phrase” opening his eyes” does not mean to literally open his eyes, but to make Pentheus understand and realize he is doomed if he does not listen and go against the Gods regardless. Which is exactly what he did, in the end of the story he finally realizes that what he has done was against the Gods and must take the punishment. This is where the women, including his mother, ripped Pentheus limb from limb and beheaded him.

Dionysus was throwing on of his many killer parties. Nobody liked Dionysus’s parties. He invited everybody near and far from Greece. Nobody was planing to come, but himself. He was planning to throw a party to celebrate all of the gods and goddesses. The whole town was talking about not going to the killer party. In the middle of the pocket sized town Artemis, the goddess of hunting was getting into a fight with her twin brother Apollo, the god of music and many of other things. Apollo was telling Artemis to go to the party, and say if it was safe or not. Everybody in the town was starting to chant Apollo's name. They wanted Artemis to go to the party and see if it was safe. Artemis didn’t even want to go to the party let alone by herself. Artemis told Apollo many times that she didn’t like parties. She wanted to go practice her bow techniques. Sence Artemis wanted to be brave for her followers she agreed to go to the party to see if it was safe.

The great historian Herodotus once said, “Of old the Hellenic race was marked off from the barbarian as more keen-witted and more free from nonsense,” pg 13, when describing the Greeks, this statement also applies to their mythology. The Greek deities, as Edith Hamilton eloquently details in her book, Mythology, are astoundingly different than other gods of the ancient world. They are made in the image of man, completely humanized, barely a trace of the primitive left in them. Because of this anthropomorphism, they are remarkable. Plainly, many interesting gods are recounted in Hamilton’s Mythology, but Dionysus, Hermes, and Demeter are the best and greatest.

Dionysus is the olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness, and wild frenzy. Most know him only by the god of wine because he created wine. His father was Zeus and his mother was princess Semele of Thebes. Dionysus was the only god with a mortal parent (mother was not a god). Zeus fell in love with Semele and visited her often. Zeus’s wife, Hera, found out about this and convinced Semele to ask Zeus to show her his true form. Zeus had no choice but to show Semele when she asked, and his true form burnt her to a crisp. Dionysus was still a fetus when this occurred so Zeus sewed him into his thigh to finish out the pregnancy term. Once Dionysus was born, Zeus made him into a god. Hera quickly found out that Dionysus was still alive despite her previous efforts, and she arranged for the Titans to rip him into a

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).

Some of the similarities between Apollo and Dionysus in Greek mythology ironically are that both of these gods had conflict. Apollo and Dionysus are similar in their own rites within the conflict between emotion and reason. Apollo came to be associated with the sun. He was always a god of light, and, like Dionysus, he inspired poetry and music. Both Apollo and Dionysus had the same father, Zeus. Both Apollo and Dionysus were distinct gods in early greek mythology. Lastly, both Apollo and Dionysus inspire human emotions in one form or another. They also inspire music and poetry regardless in what manner it inspires humans.