Chapter 9 Web Links

Dionysus

History: Encountering Dionysus

•        “The Bacchantes” play by Euripides from the MIT Classics Archive.

http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/bacchan.html

Theory: Initiations and Inversions

•        “Nietzsche, Apollo and Dionysus” video (3:47) from The School of Life, an organization that is devoted to developing emotional intelligence through culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldj0RX3CqXA

Comparison: Anatola and Rome: Cybele and Attis

•         “Attis” poem by Catullus on the companion site for Mark Morford’s “Classical Mythology”

http://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195397703/student/archives/catullus/

Reception: Dionysus as a God of the 1960s

•         “Dionysus in 69” digitally re-rendered film by The Performance Group. Availible in full (01:25:16) from the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library at NYU.

http://hidvl.nyu.edu/video/000031372_enhanced.html

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