055 - The Dionysian Mysteries

In this episode, we discuss the Great Mother Cybele and her influence on the cult of Dionysos; some of the myths and the iconography of Dionysos; and Euripides’ Bacchae and the elements of Dionysiac worship

• Photo/Neolithic Statue from Catalhoyuk of a Seated Woman (Cybele?)

• Photo/Roman Statue of Seated Cybele

• Photo/Modern Cybele Fountain in Madrid

• Photo/Metroon in Athenian Agora

• Photo/Phrygian Statuette of Agdistis

• Photo/Roman Statue of Attis

• Photo/Roman Bust of Attis

• Photo/Roman Votive Relief of a Galli Making Sacrifices to Cybele and Attis

• Video/Birth of Dionysos

• Photo/Statue of Hermes and Infant Dionysos by Praxiteles

• Video/Dionysus and the Pirates (the Dionysus Cup by Exekias)

• Photo/Dionysios Cup by Exekias

• Photo/Roman Mosaic of Dionysos and the Pirates

• Photo/Macedonian Mosaic from Pella of Dionysos Riding a Cheetah

• Photo/Hellenistic Terracotta Bust of Dionysos

• Photo/Roman Bronze Bust of Dionysos

• Photo/Roman Statue of Dionysos

• Photo/Modern Statue of Dionysos at Luxembourg

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Thiasos of Dionysos

• Photo/Roman Sarcophagus of Dionysos' Triumphal Procession from India (With Scenes from his Birth on the Top)

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Silenus

• Photo/Roman Statue of Silenus

• Photo/Vase-Painting of a Satyr

• Photo/Statue of a Satyr

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Dionysos and Two Maenads

• Photo/Vase-Painting of a Maenad Using her Thrysos to Ward Off a Horny Satyr

• Photo/Vase-Painting of a Maenad

• Photo/Roman Relief of a Maenad and her Thrysos

• Photo/Roman Statue of Pan Teaching His Eromenos to Play the Pan Flute

• Photo/Roman Statue of Pan Making Love to a Goat

• Photo/Vase-Painting of Death of Pentheus

• Photo/Roman Mosaic of Death of Pentheus

Recommended Sources for Further Reading:

Text/Euripides' The Bacchantes (Bacchae)

Recommended Podcasts for Further Listening:

Mythology Translated Ep 22 In Wine There Is Madness
Mythology Translated Ep 35 Vultures Are Gossips
MythTake Episode 18 Homeric Hymn To Dionysus
MythTake Episode 26 The Bakkhai
Literature and History Episode 34 Euripides' The Bacchae