Classical Mythology

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS^279 f TIRESIAS: Who attends at the gate? Summon Cadmus from the house, the son of Agenor, who ...

280 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and her sisters, Ino and Autonoë, the mother of Actaeon. And when I have bound them fast in ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 281 his peers of folly and madness and directs one of his henchmen to smash Tiresias' place o ...

282 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS DIONYSUS: PENTHEUS: DIONYSUS: PENTHEUS: like? DIONYSUS: PENTHEUS: says nothing. DIONYSUS: PE ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 283 DIONYSUS: I will go, since what is not destined to be, I am not destined to suffer. But D ...

284 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS threw off the heavy slumber from their eyes and jumped up—amazing in their orderliness, youn ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 285 sus from their hands they inflicted wounds on many. Women routed men—a feat not to be acc ...

286 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS DIONYSUS: So be it, and I am at your side ready for everything. PENTHEUS: I am going inside; ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 287 PENTHEUS: Shall I be more like one of the Bacchae if I hold my thyrsus in my right or my ...

288 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS First we took a position in a grassy glen, with silent footsteps and not a word, so that we ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS^289 But Agave was not in her right senses; her mouth foamed and her eyes rolled madly as the ...

290 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS HARRY PARTCH'S AMERICAN BACCHAE Harry Partch, the American composer, offers enlightening ins ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS^291 In Orchomenus, a city of Boeotia, the daughters of Minyas refused to par- ticipate in Bac ...

292 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Maenad. Interior of an Attic kylix by the Brygos painter, ca. 480 B.C.; diameter llV 4 in. T ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 293 or maenads, are the female devotees, mortal women who become possessed. In mythology they ...

294 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS the Titans and destroyed them with his thunder and lightning; but from their ashes humankind ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 295 Dionysus with Satyrs and Mae- nads. Athenian black-figure amphora, sixth century B.c.; he ...

(^296) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS mental elements in the nature of his character and worship: miracles, bestial transformat ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 297 THE DIONYSIACA OF NONNUS Nonnus, a poet from Panopolis in Egypt, composed in the fifth ce ...

298 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Pan Pursuing a Goatherd. By the Pan painter, Attic red-figure krater, ca. 460 B.C.; height 1 ...