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

• 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
MythTake Episode 18 Homeric Hymn To Dionysus
MythTake Episode 26 The Bakkhai
Literature and History Episode 34 Euripides' The Bacchae