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Books on: dionysus

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Journal Articles on: dionysus

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    Dumbed-Down Dionysus; Dolled Up: Alan Cumming Plays Dionysus as a Hyper-Queen
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 10, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Dumbed-Down Dionysus; Dolled Up: Alan Cumming Plays Dionysus as a Hyper-Queen. Byline: Nicholas de Jongh THEATRE...Alan Cummings deeplyridiculous performance as the God Dionysus in Euripidess The Bacchae. John Tiffanys unpersuasive...
     
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    Laughter Distracts from the Tragedy; THEATRE
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 17, 2010
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    The Bacchae (Euripides) (Play)
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...lighthearted introductory remarks of Dionysus, complete with fag in hand. After that...be on the lookout for funny bits. But Dionysus is not funny. Hes a god out for revenge...include Pentheuss own mother, after which Dionysus banishes both the mother, Agave, and...
     
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    Trash Is My Hottest Ticket at the Fringe; CITY LIVES
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 11, 2006
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...jackpot on the very first day. Apollo Dionysus is playing in a dusty hall high in the...white space! Somewhere! Anywhere! Dionysus is drinking. He is naked. Apollo is...at Delphi. They might be anywhere." Dionysus howls: "I am ecstasy! I am wine...
     
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    Dive in! Pegasus Makes Splash with Revival of 'Frogs'
    Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 4, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...centers around a journey into Hades by Dionysus, a fine performance by Steven Marzolf...the River Styx. In the original play, Dionysus descends to the underworld to return...In the Sondheim-Shevelove version, Dionysus goes to Hades (presided over by Jonathan...
     
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    Silk Road Leads to Artistic Find
    Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, September 15, 2001
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...such as the "Drinking Contest of Herakles and Dionysus" and the many depictions of Dionysus, the god of wine, show a love of drinking...luxurious impression. Artisans used the Greek gods Dionysus and Aphrodite in their work .But at Antioch...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: dionysus

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    Dionysus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    DIONYSUS di ni s s, in Greek religion and mythology...According to the Orphic legend, he was Dionysus Zagreus, the son of Zeus and Persephone...wine making. Having grown to manhood, Dionysus wandered through many lands, teaching...
     
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    Orphic Mysteries
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...The rites were based on the myth of Dionysus Zagreus, the son of Zeus and Persephone...heart (from which was born the second Dionysus Zagreus) and destroyed the Titans with...the human race, who were part divine (Dionysus) and part evil (Titan). This double...
     
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    Semele
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...SEMELE sem ile, in Greek mythology, mother of Dionysus, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia. Zeus, who...ashes and thrust him into his thigh, from which Dionysus was finally born. Later Dionysus rescued Semele from Hades and made her a goddess...
     
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    Ariadne
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...abandoned her at Naxos. There the god Dionysus consoled and later married her. She...children, including Oenopion, whom Dionysus first taught the art of winemaking...granted Ariadne immortality and that Dionysus set her bridal crown, the Corona Borealis...
     
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    Bacchus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...and mythology, god of wine; in Greek mythology, Dionysus . Dionysus was also the god of tillage and law giving. He was...of wine, Liber Pater. Many legends connected with Dionysus were also used in the cult of Bacchus...
     

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