WHEN Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote these lines which sound so pessimistic and so limited to any lover of the beauty and truth of Greek mythology, she had in mind a famous passage out of Plutarch's De Oraculorum defectu (Mor. Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Dionysus and Ariadne accompanied by satyrs. Dionysus in a ship with bow shaped like an ass's head. Hermes bringing new-born Dionysus to nymphs. Maenads dancing at the festival of Dionysus. Maenads ladling out wine before Dionysus column. Maenads in ecstasy before Dionysus column. Introduction Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Pan, Pan is dead.Frontispiece Dionysus.
Hermes bringing new-born Dionysus to nymphs.ġ0. Maenads dancing at the festival of Dionysus.ħ. Maenads ladling out wine before Dionysus column.ģ. Maenads in ecstasy before Dionysus column.Ģ. Dionysus Revealed in Vegetative Nature 14. The Birthplace of the Cult of Dionysus 3. Te di manes tui ut quietam patiantur atque ita tueantur optamus.Ĭontents by Robert B. Walterus Otto summarum ctrtium liberalium litterarum studiis utfiusque linguae perfecte eruditus, musarum semper amator, v. Indiana University Press BLOOMINGTON AND LONDONĬopyright © 1965 by Indiana University Press Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 65-11792 Manufactured in the United States of Americaĭ. 41.162.8)ĭIONYSUS MYTH AND CULT Translated with an Introduction by ROBERT B.
T h e Metropolitan Mu seum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1941. Detail from a wine cup attributed to Pheidippos (ca.
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