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Dionysus and Kataragama: Parallel Mystery Cults
In the cult of Dionysus, too, melancholy silence was the sign of women possessed by the god. Indeed, Kataragama's ritual performances are all conducted in strict silence and no ...
http://kataragama.org/research/Dionysus_and_Kataragama.pdf
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Dionysus, the God Within Sacrifice, Ecstasy, and Enthusiasm
We call the particular pattern of worship for a particular deity in a particular place a "cult", i.e. the cult of Artemis at Ephesus. We will be looking at the cults of Dionysus in ...
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~ugclass/ugclass/honorscolloquiumseminar.pdf
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THE THEATER OF DIONYSUS AND THE TRAGIC VISION
The city Dionysia, held annually for five days in March, included a procession of citizens carrying emblems of the Dionysus cult and celebrating the making of new wine; rituals also ...
http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/mythology/instructors_resources/harrispt1ch13.pdf
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Euripides' Bacchae
Is this cult just for women, just for the young, they ask? No, Dionysus wants all mankind to honor him. He wants no one excluded from his worship.
http://bama.ua.edu/~ksummers/cl222/bacchae/dionysus2.pdf
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Chapter 4.1: Origins of Greek Theatre
Chapter 4.1: Origins of Greek Theatre The Few Facts Known About Early Greek Drama •Is the Dionysus cult the "only one in antiquity in which dramatic plays would have developed"?
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/ClasDram/PP/slides/041.pdf
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Apollonian Restraint and Dionysian Excess in Euripides' The Bacchae
The cult of Dionysus allows them a freedom and power that they had never experienced. The behavior of the bacchants may be seen as a warning to the men who held power in Athens.
http://www.hsu.edu/uploadedFiles/Faculty/AFO/21/Higgs.pdf
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Dionysosand Liminality
... Pentheuswho act as spokesmen for different theologies â Pentheus : rationalism and Apollineopposition to the new cult â Dionysus : the irrational, liminalabandonment of the cult Ñ Is ...
http://hccl.byu.edu/faculty/HuntsmanE/ClCv241eh/Unit%201/14-Dionysos.pdf
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The Mask of Dionysus: Epiphany and Confrontation at the Limits
Otto, Walter F. Dionysus: Myth and Cult . Trans. Robert B. Palmer. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1965. Paris, Ginette. Pagan Grace: Dionysos, Hermes, and Goddess Memory in Daily Life .
http://www.press.ntu.edu.tw/ejournal/Files/Studies/12/1.pdf
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Plato and the Kabbalah
The ancient cult practices of magic and sex-rites that figured in the cult of the dying ... Jews that they are brethren and are of the family of Abraham."10 The Mysteries of Dionysus ...
http://www.thedyinggod.com/Plato_and_Kabbalah.pdf
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Illinois classical studies: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/10684
Charles Segal 275 ritual shows how Euripides uses Dionysus and Dionysiac cult for his recurrent meditation on divine justice and on human freedom and its limits.
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/13211/illinoisclassica242519992000SEGAL.pdf?sequence=2
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