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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Dionysus"”.
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The dance of Apollo and Dionysus: The interplay of forces bridging the white viewer and the black dance
It is the goal of this paper to deconstruct the white fascination with black cultural dance, specifically looking at hip-hop, in order to utilize these findings as an impetus for discussion on the prevalence of white cultural absorption and modification of the exotic ‘Other.’ Such analysis will …
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Nietzsche as Philosopher of Religion
… his own which finds expression in the figures of Dionysus and Zarathustra. Nietzsche's critique of Christianity must not be taken for hostility toward religion in general: he insists upon its uses as well as disadvantages, in the ""service"" and ""enhancement"" of life. In all of Nietzsche's work …
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Plato's Orpheus: The Philosophical Appropriation of Orphic Formulae
… term poinē in terms of the Orphic myth of Dionysus. I contend with the arguments of Edmonds who redefines the Greek word poinē as timé in order to discredit the existence of an Orphic doctrine. I survey the use of the Greek word poinē in Homer, Pindar, Plato, the Derveni …
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Antický hudební mýtus a jeho responze ve středoškolské hudební výchově
… is concerned with the classical myths of Apollo, Dionysus, Orpheus, Pan and Sirens. The chapter presents particular versions of the myths and conducts their interpretation. The third chapter focuses on the selected mythological motifs as inspiration for the musical work in the historical …
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The Regional Cults of Thessaly
… Leschanorios, Artemis Throsia, Athena Itonia, Dionysus Karpios, Ennodia, Poseidon Petraios, Themis, Zeus Eleutherios, Zeus Homoloios and Zeus Thaulios, among others.
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Nietzsche's Ariadne: a new perspective on the eternal recurrence
… Ariadne as a solution to the inadequacies of Dionysus (the loneliness of what assimilates in the enaction of its values, what negates in alignment towards itself) precisely because she is a woman—and hence most capable of inverting the philosophical concept Woman as a synecdoche of all …
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Private initiation and the afterlife in classical Greece
… to other forms of religion such as the cult of Dionysus and mainstream polis religion, and their views of the afterlife. I argue that they did not belong to anything that could be called a sect, a concept anachronistic for this period, and that they did not have a coherent doctrine of the …
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"Zeus the Head, Zeus the Middle": Studies in the History and Interpretation of the Orphic Theogonies
… speculations about the natures of Phanes, Zeus, Dionysus and other deities. In chronological order I analyze the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they …
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Exquisite corpse: a tower for the public in the era of exhausted modernity
… be introduced - or, the re-union of Apollo and Dionysus in city culture. In this situation, the grid system needs to operate not as an overarching system which represses the irreducible form of each program, but rather a tool that orchestrates multiple different forms that produces the …
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Archetypes and the unthought: The projection of the King’s Court in New Zealand television media
… and activity in relation to Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus, and Ares. In the thesis, the quarternio and the Greek Gods are represented by the archetypes of the King’s Court. The Ruler archetype represents Zeus and Apollo as the thinking function of the mind. The Sage archetype is shown to be …
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"The Geography of Letters": Space and the Little Magazine in Bombay, 1960 - 1980
… *The Bombay Duck*, *Blunt*, *tornado*, and *Dionysus*), accompanied by two publishing houses (Newground and Clearing House) that emerged from their networks. Reflecting (and querying) the cartography of nation-building, the project is structured in four sections, corresponding to widening …
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Comradery, Class, and Consciousness: A Case Study in Comradery
Recent attempts to save the US labor movement from declining relevancy and membership through social unionism have met with limited results. This work identifies this failure with social unionism's lack of interest in helping members create a robust class consciousness. To this end, I develop the …
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Fowl feathered fox: Monsters, pipers, families and flocks
… of the Pied Piper of Hamelin and Greek demi-god Dionysus, finding parallels in tragic revenge narratives wrought by infamous American cult leaders such as Charles Manson and David Berg. Finally, the third exegetical essay examines monstrous, messianic mothers from Greek myth, horror fiction and …
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Cults of Artemis in Ancient Greece
… elements of primitivism. Together with Dionysus, to whom she is mythologically and ritually related, she presents a riddle for the student who tries to understand her place in the Greek pantheon. In accordance with the modern alertness to the dangers of oversimplification lurking behind …
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Completing the Circle: A Study of the Archetypal Male and Female in Nathaniel Hawthorne's <em>The Scarlet Letter</em>.
<p>This thesis examines the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the archetypal images therein. The Scarlet Letter is discussed extensively with references made to The Blithedale Romance. Characters in the following short stories are referred to: “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” “Young Goodman Brown” and “The …
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These Lines are Material
<i>Bacchus, Vulcan and Metis walk into a bar . . .</i> The following dialogues took place beginning in January of this year. In a series of investigations through drawing, physical constucts and research, the project began to take shape. With the help of Bacchus, Vulcan and Metis, the building was …
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The Function of Mythology and Religion in Ancient Greek Society.
<p>The ancient Greeks are prime subjects of study for those wishing to understand the roles that religion and mythology play in a society and how the two interact with each other. This paper covers what I feel after my study of Greek mythology and religion are the eight functions of mythology: …