Dionysus

Turner Caldwell & Jack Schuette

Anthropomorphism- The connection of an attribute to a god

Epithet- Adjective expressing a quality characteristic of someone

Eponym- A person after whom something is named

Etiological tale- a story that explains the existence of some phenomenon

Myth- traditional story explaining early history of people or a phenomenon

Pantheon- All of the gods of a people

The song Blame it by Jamie Foxx ft. T-pain explains Dionysus because his way of life is a party using alcohol and living life to the fullest.

Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele. He is the only god to have a mortal parent. Zeus came to Semele in the night, invisible, felt only as a divine presence Semele was happy with being a lover of a god even though she couldn't tell which one.

They believed Dionysus was the god of fertility and wine. He was later seen as a patron of art. He invented wine and spread the art of tending grapes.

Dionysus's symbols are the bull, serpent, ivy, and wine. He is also shown sometimes riding leopards.

Many short poems about Dionysus are written.

Dionysus walks his vineyard, his beloved;

Two women in dark clothing - two vintagers - follow him.

Dionysus tells the two mournful guards - The vintagers:

"Take your sharp knife, my vintners, Grief and Torment;

Harvest, Grief and Torment, my beloved grapes!

Gather the blood of scarlet bunches, the tears of my golden clusters -

Take the victim of bliss to the whetstone of grief,

The purple of suffering to the whetstone of bliss;

Pour the fervent liquid of scarlet delights into my ardent Grail!"

by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov