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Euripides, Bacchae, 242-245
nan I will stop him from making a noise with the thyrsos and shaking his hair, by cutting his head off.That one claims that Dionysus is a god, claims that he was once stitched into the thigh of Zeus—Dionysus, who was burnt up with his mother by the flame of lightning
ἐκεῖνος ἐν μηρῷ ποτʼ ἐρράφθαι Διός I will stop him from making a noise with the thyrsos and shaking his hair, by cutting his head off.That one claims that Dionysus is a god, claims that he was once stitched into the thigh of Zeus—Dionysus, who was burnt up with his mother by the flame of lightning
ὃς ἐκπυροῦται λαμπάσιν κεραυνίαις I will stop him from making a noise with the thyrsos and shaking his hair, by cutting his head off.That one claims that Dionysus is a god, claims that he was once stitched into the thigh of Zeus—Dionysus, who was burnt up with his mother by the flame of lightning
σὺν μητρί, Δίους ὅτι γάμους ἐψεύσατο. because she had falsely claimed a marriage with Zeus. Is this not worthy of a terrible death by hanging, for a stranger to insult me with these insults, whoever he is?But here is another wonder—I see Teiresias the soothsayer in dappled fawn-skin

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1. Homer, Iliad, 6.132 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 6.132. /Nay, for even the son of Dryas, mighty Lycurgus, lived not long, seeing that he strove with heavenly gods—he that on a time drave down over the sacred mount of Nysa the nursing mothers of mad Dionysus; and they all let fall to the ground their wands, smitten with an ox-goad by man-slaying Lycurgus.
2. Aristophanes, Birds, 988, 987 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 987. καὶ φείδου μηδὲν μηδ' αἰετοῦ ἐν νεφέλῃσιν
3. Aristophanes, Clouds, 332 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 332. Θουριομάντεις ἰατροτέχνας σφραγιδονυχαργοκομήτας
4. Euripides, Bacchae, 101, 1016, 102-103, 1030, 104, 1110, 1249-1250, 1274-1276, 135-144, 157, 176-177, 181-183, 192-196, 206, 208, 212, 214-241, 243-369, 395, 445-446, 520-529, 537-541, 652, 67-68, 72, 725-726, 73-87, 94-99, 996, 100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 100. τέλεσαν, ταυρόκερων θεὸν 100. had perfected him, the bull-horned god, and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks. Choru
5. Herodotus, Histories, 2.146 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 2.146. With regard to these two, Pan and Dionysus, one may follow whatever story one thinks most credible; but I give my own opinion concerning them here. Had Dionysus son of Semele and Pan son of Penelope appeared in Hellas and lived there to old age, like Heracles the son of Amphitryon, it might have been said that they too (like Heracles) were but men, named after the older Pan and Dionysus, the gods of antiquity; ,but as it is, the Greek story has it that no sooner was Dionysus born than Zeus sewed him up in his thigh and carried him away to Nysa in Ethiopia beyond Egypt ; and as for Pan, the Greeks do not know what became of him after his birth. It is therefore plain to me that the Greeks learned the names of these two gods later than the names of all the others, and trace the birth of both to the time when they gained the knowledge.
6. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 301-304, 385-395, 300 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
7. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 12.10.3-12.10.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 12.10.3.  And shortly thereafter the city was moved to another site and received another name, its founders being Lampon and Xenocritus; the circumstances of its founding were as follows. The Sybarites who were driven a second time from their native city dispatched ambassadors to Greece, to the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, requesting that they assist their repatriation and take part in the settlement. 12.10.4.  Now the Lacedaemonians paid no attention to them, but the Athenians promised to join in the enterprise, and they manned ten ships and sent them to the Sybarites under the leadership of Lampon and Xenocritus; they further sent word to the several cities of the Peloponnesus, offering a share in the colony to anyone who wished to take part in it.
8. Hyginus, Fabulae (Genealogiae), 167 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
9. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.256-3.315 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
10. Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3.4.2-3.4.3, 3.10.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 3.4.2. Κάδμος δὲ ἀνθʼ ὧν ἔκτεινεν ἀίδιον 3 -- ἐνιαυτὸν ἐθήτευσεν Ἄρει· ἦν δὲ ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς τότε ὀκτὼ ἔτη. μετὰ δὲ τὴν θητείαν Ἀθηνᾶ αὐτῷ τὴν βασιλείαν 4 -- κατεσκεύασε, Ζεὺς δὲ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ γυναῖκα Ἁρμονίαν, Ἀφροδίτης καὶ Ἄρεος θυγατέρα. καὶ πάντες θεοὶ καταλιπόντες τὸν οὐρανόν, ἐν τῇ Καδμείᾳ τὸν γάμον εὐωχούμενοι καθύμνησαν. ἔδωκε δὲ αὐτῇ Κάδμος πέπλον καὶ τὸν ἡφαιστότευκτον ὅρμον, ὃν ὑπὸ Ἡφαίστου λέγουσί τινες δοθῆναι Κάδμῳ, Φερεκύδης δὲ ὑπὸ Εὐρώπης· ὃν παρὰ Διὸς αὐτὴν λαβεῖν. γίνονται δὲ Κάδμῳ θυγατέρες μὲν Αὐτονόη Ἰνὼ Σεμέλη Ἀγαυή, παῖς δὲ Πολύδωρος. Ἰνὼ μὲν οὖν Ἀθάμας ἔγημεν, Αὐτονόην δὲ Ἀρισταῖος, Ἀγαυὴν δὲ Ἐχίων. 3.4.3. Σεμέλης δὲ Ζεὺς ἐρασθεὶς Ἥρας κρύφα συνευνάζεται. ἡ δὲ ἐξαπατηθεῖσα ὑπὸ Ἥρας, κατανεύσαντος αὐτῇ Διὸς πᾶν τὸ αἰτηθὲν ποιήσειν, αἰτεῖται τοιοῦτον αὐτὸν ἐλθεῖν οἷος ἦλθε μνηστευόμενος Ἥραν. Ζεὺς δὲ μὴ δυνάμενος ἀνανεῦσαι παραγίνεται εἰς τὸν θάλαμον αὐτῆς ἐφʼ ἅρματος ἀστραπαῖς ὁμοῦ καὶ βρονταῖς, καὶ κεραυνὸν ἵησιν. Σεμέλης δὲ διὰ τὸν φόβον ἐκλιπούσης, ἑξαμηνιαῖον τὸ βρέφος ἐξαμβλωθὲν ἐκ τοῦ πυρὸς ἁρπάσας ἐνέρραψε τῷ μηρῷ. ἀποθανούσης δὲ Σεμέλης, αἱ λοιπαὶ Κάδμου θυγατέρες διήνεγκαν λόγον, συνηυνῆσθαι θνητῷ τινι Σεμέλην καὶ καταψεύσασθαι Διός, καὶ ὅτι 1 -- διὰ τοῦτο ἐκεραυνώθη. κατὰ δὲ τὸν χρόνον τὸν καθήκοντα Διόνυσον γεννᾷ Ζεὺς λύσας τὰ ῥάμματα, καὶ δίδωσιν Ἑρμῇ. ὁ δὲ κομίζει πρὸς Ἰνὼ καὶ Ἀθάμαντα καὶ πείθει τρέφειν ὡς κόρην. ἀγανακτήσασα δὲ Ἥρα μανίαν αὐτοῖς ἐνέβαλε, καὶ Ἀθάμας μὲν τὸν πρεσβύτερον παῖδα Λέαρχον ὡς ἔλαφον θηρεύσας ἀπέκτεινεν, Ἰνὼ δὲ τὸν Μελικέρτην εἰς πεπυρωμένον λέβητα ῥίψασα, εἶτα βαστάσασα μετὰ νεκροῦ τοῦ παιδὸς ἥλατο κατὰ βυθοῦ. 1 -- καὶ Λευκοθέα μὲν αὐτὴν καλεῖται, Παλαίμων δὲ ὁ παῖς, οὕτως ὀνομασθέντες ὑπὸ τῶν πλεόντων· τοῖς χειμαζομένοις γὰρ βοηθοῦσιν. ἐτέθη δὲ ἐπὶ Μελικέρτῃ ὁ 2 -- ἀγὼν τῶν Ἰσθμίων, Σισύφου θέντος. Διόνυσον δὲ Ζεὺς εἰς ἔριφον ἀλλάξας τὸν Ἥρας θυμὸν ἔκλεψε, καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὸν Ἑρμῆς πρὸς νύμφας ἐκόμισεν ἐν Νύσῃ κατοικούσας τῆς Ἀσίας, ἃς ὕστερον Ζεὺς καταστερίσας ὠνόμασεν Ὑάδας. 3.10.3. Ταϋγέτη δὲ ἐκ Διὸς ἐγέννησε 1 -- Λακεδαίμονα, ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ Λακεδαίμων ἡ χώρα καλεῖται. Λακεδαίμονος δὲ καὶ Σπάρτης τῆς Εὐρώτα, ὃς ἦν ἀπὸ Λέλεγος αὐτόχθονος καὶ νύμφης νηίδος Κλεοχαρείας, Ἀμύκλας καὶ Εὐρυδίκη, ἣν ἔγημεν Ἀκρίσιος. Ἀμύκλα δὲ καὶ Διομήδης τῆς Λαπίθου Κυνόρτης καὶ Ὑάκινθος. τοῦτον εἶναι τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος ἐρώμενον λέγουσιν, ὃν δίσκῳ βαλὼν ἄκων ἀπέκτεινε. Κυνόρτου δὲ Περιήρης, ὃς γαμεῖ Γοργοφόνην τὴν Περσέως, καθάπερ Στησίχορός φησι, καὶ τίκτει Τυνδάρεων Ἰκάριον Ἀφαρέα Λεύκιππον. Ἀφαρέως μὲν οὖν καὶ Ἀρήνης τῆς Οἰβάλου 1 -- Λυγκεύς τε καὶ Ἴδας καὶ Πεῖσος· κατὰ πολλοὺς δὲ Ἴδας ἐκ Ποσειδῶνος λέγεται. Λυγκεὺς δὲ ὀξυδερκίᾳ διήνεγκεν, ὡς καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ γῆν θεωρεῖν. Λευκίππου δὲ θυγατέρες ἐγένοντο Ἱλάειρα καὶ Φοίβη· ταύτας ἁρπάσαντες ἔγημαν Διόσκουροι. πρὸς δὲ ταύταις Ἀρσινόην ἐγέννησε. ταύτῃ μίγνυται Ἀπόλλων, ἡ δὲ Ἀσκληπιὸν γεννᾷ. τινὲς δὲ Ἀσκληπιὸν οὐκ ἐξ Ἀρσινόης τῆς Λευκίππου λέγουσιν, ἀλλʼ ἐκ Κορωνίδος τῆς Φλεγύου ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ. καί φασιν ἐρασθῆναι ταύτης Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ εὐθέως συνελθεῖν· τὴν δὲ 1 -- παρὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς γνώμην ἑλομένην 2 -- Ἴσχυϊ τῷ Καινέως ἀδελφῷ συνοικεῖν. Ἀπόλλων δὲ τὸν μὲν ἀπαγγείλαντα κόρακα καταρᾶται, ὃν 3 -- τέως λευκὸν ὄντα ἐποίησε μέλανα, αὐτὴν δὲ ἀπέκτεινε. καιομένης δὲ αὐτῆς 4 -- ἁρπάσας τὸ βρέφος ἐκ τῆς πυρᾶς πρὸς Χείρωνα τὸν Κένταυρον ἤνεγκε, παρʼ ᾧ 1 -- καὶ τὴν ἰατρικὴν καὶ τὴν κυνηγετικὴν τρεφόμενος ἐδιδάχθη. καὶ γενόμενος χειρουργικὸς καὶ τὴν τέχνην ἀσκήσας ἐπὶ πολὺ οὐ μόνον ἐκώλυέ τινας ἀποθνήσκειν, ἀλλʼ ἀνήγειρε καὶ τοὺς ἀποθανόντας· παρὰ γὰρ Ἀθηνᾶς λαβὼν τὸ ἐκ τῶν φλεβῶν τῆς Γοργόνος ῥυὲν αἷμα, τῷ μὲν ἐκ τῶν ἀριστερῶν ῥυέντι πρὸς φθορὰν ἀνθρώπων ἐχρῆτο, τῷ δὲ ἐκ τῶν δεξιῶν πρὸς σωτηρίαν, καὶ διὰ τούτου 2 -- τοὺς τεθνηκότας ἀνήγειρεν. εὗρον 3 -- δέ τινας λεγομένους ἀναστῆναι ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, Καπανέα καὶ Λυκοῦργον, ὡς Στησίχορός φησιν ἐν Ἐριφύλῃ, Ἱππόλυτον, ὡς ὁ τὰ Ναυπακτικὰ συγγράψας λέγει, Τυνδάρεων, ὥς φησι Πανύασις, 1 -- Ὑμέναιον, ὡς οἱ Ὀρφικοὶ λέγουσι, Γλαῦκον τὸν Μίνωος, ὡς Μελησαγόρας λέγε ι.
11. Plutarch, Pericles, 6.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 6.2. A story is told that once on a time the head of a one-horned ram was brought to Pericles from his country-place, and that Lampon the seer, when he saw how the horn grew strong and solid from the middle of the forehead, declared that, whereas there were two powerful parties in the city, that of Thucydides and that of Pericles, the mastery would finally devolve upon one man,—the man to whom this sign had been given. Anaxagoras, however, had the skull cut in two, and showed that the brain had not filled out its position, but had drawn together to a point, like an egg, at that particular spot in the entire cavity where the root of the horn began.
12. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 41.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
13. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.26.7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.26.7. The third account is, in my opinion, the farthest from the truth; it makes Asclepius to be the son of Arsinoe, the daughter of Leucippus. For when Apollophanes the Arcadian, came to Delphi and asked the god if Asclepius was the son of Arsinoe and therefore a Messenian, the Pythian priestess gave this response:— 0 Asclepius, born to bestow great joy upon mortals, Pledge of the mutual love I enjoyed with Phlegyas' daughter, Lovely Coronis, who bare thee in rugged land Epidaurus . Unknown . This oracle makes it quite certain that Asclepius was not a son of Arsinoe, and that the story was a fiction invented by Hesiod, or by one of Hesiod's interpolators, just to please the Messenians.
14. Firmicus Maternus Julius., De Errore Profanarum Religionum, 6.5 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
15. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 327, 325

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aristophanes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231; Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
asclepius	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
bacchants,bacchae,bacchai	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
bacchic,bacchios,baccheios βάκχιος,βακχεῖος	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
bacchus,bacchius	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
charlatans	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
chiron	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
chorus χορός,choral	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314, 358
chthonic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
comedy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
dionysos,dionysos bacchios	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
dionysos,dionysos bromios	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
dionysos,dionysos xenos	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
dionysos,epiphany	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
dionysos	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314, 358; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
dionysus,birth	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
dionysus,heart	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
divination	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
earth,earthly	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
earth	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
echion	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
ecstasy ἔκστασις,ecstatic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
euripides	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
fire	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
gigantomachy	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
hera	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
hierarchy of means	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
hierocles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
homer	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
iacchos ἴακχος	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
initiates	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
kadmos,kadmeian	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314, 358
kithairon	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
lampon	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
life	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
lightning	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
lloyd,michael	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
lydia,lydian	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
maenads,maenadic,maenadism,rites/cults	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
maenads,maenadic,maenadism	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
magos	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
mania μανία,maniacal	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314, 358
musaeus	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
myth,mythical	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
myth	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
nurse	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
nymph	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
nysa	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
oedipus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
olympus	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
orpheus,literary author	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
orphic,see titans,zagreus	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
pentheus	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314, 358
pericles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
plague	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
plutarch	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
poetry	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
prophet	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
rite,ritual,maenadic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
rite,ritual	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
secret/secrecy	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 74
segal,c. p.	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
semele	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
sophism of teiresias in bacchae	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
sparagmós σπαραγμός	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
speech	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
suppliant women bacchae compared	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
taplin,oliver	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
teiresias	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
theater,theatrical	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
thebes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
theomachist,theomachus	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
tragedy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
violence/violent	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
wine	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
womb	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
worship'	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 358
xenia	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 314
zeus,zeus lightning	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
zeus	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128