Mythology chapter 2

Demeter's latin name

Ceres

Demeter's realm

Goddess of corn/the harvest

Demeter's parents

Cronus and Rhea

Dionysus's roman name

Bacchus

Dionysus's realm

God of wine/the vine

Dionysus's parents

Zeus and Semele

Why was goddess an appropriate choice for the realm of demeter?

Women did the farming and harvesting on earth at that time

Demeter's great temple

Eleusis

Demeter's secret ceremony

Eleusinian Mysteries

Why are Demeter and Dionysus worshipped together?

Their harvests are at the same time and they are both part of daily life for humans

What are Dionysus and Demeter both gods of?

Great suffering

What is the natural phenomenon explained by demeter's story?

The 4 seasons

What was Persephone the maiden of?

The spring

How was hades able to kidnap Persephone?

Persephone went too far while out in nature. She was in awe at the narcissus flower and hades captured her.

What happened on earth as a result of demeter's suffering?

The world entered a famine-no harvest

Food and drink of the gods

Ambrosia and honey sweet nectar

Why is Demeter invited to the house of metaneira?

Metaneira's 4 daughters saw Demeter and thought she might be a good caregiver for their mother's new son.

What drink was offered and what was requested by Demeter at the house of metaneira? Why is this appropriate?

Offered-honey sweet wine. Requested-barley water flavored with mint. It is appropriate because the farmers drank that during the harvest and it became the drink of people who worshipped Demeter.

Who is Demophoon?

Metaneira's son

What did Demeter do to Demophoon to keep him young forever?

She anointed him with Ambrosa and placed him in the heart of the fire at night time.

What did Demeter make the people do for her and what made her angry?

Metaneira saw the baby in the fire, Demeter got upset and threw the baby down, she made them make a temple for her.

How did Zeus intervene?

There was a famine therefore no sacrifices for him, he needed the worship =power.

What did Zeus try to do?

First he tried to send gods to convince demeter to settle down, then he sent Hermes to tell hades to let Persephone go.

What does hades force Persephone to eat?

A pomegranate seed- she would have to come back four months a year

What did Demeter do as an apology for her sufferings?

She made the fields more abundant and taught men how to sow corn.

What cycle of sorrow did Demeter and Persephone have to deal with?

Demeter had to see Persephone die each year and Persephone was killed each year(down to underworld)

What was the tie of their everlasting sorrow to the natural phenomenon?

When Persephone goes down to hades, it becomes winter because there is no harvest due to demeter's suffering.

Why do the humans turn to Demeter and Dionysus for comfort and consolation instead of the Olympians?

Demeter and Dionysus understand what suffering is like because they've been through it before, the Olympians haven't.

What is the gift Dionysus gave to mankind?

Wine

What is the natural phenomenon associated with Dionysus?

Where grapes and the vine came from and Dionysus is affecting your behavior when you drink the wine.

Who are Dionysus's parents and what is his distinction among the gods?

Zeus and Semele; he is the only God who has a parent that is not divine.

Why did Zeus have to show himself to Semele?

He swore to the river Styx and loved her so much he would do anything for her.

Why did Semele want to see Zeus so badly?

Because jealous Hera puts it in her mind because she wants her dead

What happened to Semele when she saw Zeus? What happened to Dionysus?

She was killed. Zeus saved unborn Dionysus and hid him in his side until he was born then he was put with the nymphs.

What did Dionysus do to the people on the ship when they denied he was a god?

He stopped their ship. wine ran in streams down the deck and a vine was put around the sail. Dionysus became a lion and the scared sailors jumped overboard, d changed them into Dolphins.

How did Dionysus punish Lycurgus?

By imprisoning him in a cave. Zeus struck him blind with his thunderbolt.

What happened to Ariadne?

She was abandoned by Theseus whose life she saved. Dionysus put her crown in the stars

Where did Dionysus go to find his mother and what happened to her?

He went to the underworld. She was accepted in Olympus because she was the mother of a god

Who are the maenads/bacchantes? What were the two sides of their behavior?

Women frenzied with Dionysus's wine, eat animal flesh in the forest. Freedom and ecstatic joy and savage brutality.

How do the 2 sided of the maenads/bacchantes affect Dionysus's gift on humans?

Sometimes he is man's blessing other times his ruin when the people drink his wine.

How did Dionysus punish pentheus ?

He turned him into a wild beast and made his family drunk in a bad way so they ripped him apart. Then his family got sober and realized what they did.

How was Dionysus worshipped?

By poems and plays.

What is the source of Dionysus's grief?

His own pain-he is the vine and every harvest he is cut up and every spring he comes to life.

What did Dionysus inspire people to believe?

That the soul lives forever after the death of the body. He is never associated with the underworld so they believe he can be associated with the resurrection.