Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Dionysus is the most paradoxical of the Greek gods. God of wine, of the vine and of drunkenness, he is above all the god of transformation. Unlike the Olympians fixed on their mountaintop, he wanders, followed by a noisy procession.
He erases the borders between divine and human, order and chaos, life and death. Out of his festivals came Theater, one of the greatest legacies of Greece.
The rest is in the Sophia app.The remaining parts, the open-book quiz and the full glossary. Free to start; Premium unlocks everything.
- 2Born twice: from Semele to the thigh of Zeus
- 3The ecstasy of the Maenads
- 4Out of chaos, theater is born
- 5Dionysus against Apollo
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary17 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
