Dionysus and Achilles (课件)

Thetis attempted unsuccessfully to make her son immortal. There are two versions of the story.
In the earlier version, in secret from Peleus, Thetis used to bury it in the fire by night to destroy the mortal element in its nature that came from its father, and rubbed it by day with ambrosia. But Peleus kept a watch on her, and shouted out when he saw the child squirming in the fire; and Thetis, frustrated in her purpose, abandoned her son and went back to the Nereids. Peleus delivered the child to Chiron, who took him in, and fed him on the entrails of lions and wild boars and the marrow of bears, and named him Achilles [lipless] because he had not applied his lips to a breast.
As a student he had pursued a Dionysian lifestyle, holding riotous parties and rarely spending an evening at home.
Achilles
Achilles
Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus and the Nereid Thetis.
He was the mightiest of the Greeks who fought in the Trojan War, and was the hero of Homer's Iliad.
Achilles went with Odysseus to Troy accompanied by his tutor Phoenix and his close friend Patroclus. At Troy, Achilles distinguished himself as an undefeatable warrior. Among his other exploits, he captured twenty-three towns in Trojan territory. Later on Agamemnon , the leader of the Greeks, was forced by an oracle of Apollo to give up his own war-prize, and took Briseis away from Achilles
Famous story of Dionysus
Dionysus returns to Thebes, his putative birthplace, where his cousin Pentheus is king. Pentheus plans to punish the women of Thebes for denying that he was a god and born of a god. He is enraged at the worship of Dionysus and forbids it, but he cannot stop the women, including his mother Agave, or even the elder statesmen of the kingdom from swarmiLeabharlann Baidug to the wilds to join the Maenads (a term given to women under the ecstatic spell of Dionysus) in worship. Dionysus lures Pentheus to the wilds where he is killed by the Maenads and then mutilated by Agave.
Achilles was overwhelmed with grief for his friend and rage at Hector. His mother obtained magnificent new armor for him, and he returned to the fighting and killed Hector. He desecrated the body, dragging it behind his chariot, and refused to allow it to receive funeral rites. When Priam, the king of Troy and Hector's father, came secretly into the Greek camp to plead for the body,
He is hardly mentioned at all in the Homeric epics, and when he is it is with some hostility. A number of his stories are tales of how Dionysus moved into a city, was resisted, and then destroyed those who opposed him.
In another version, one with more explicit religious overtones, Dionysus, also referred to as Zagreus in this account, is the son of Zeus and Persephone, Queen of the Underworld. Hera gets the Titans to lure the infant with toys, and then they rip him to shreds eating everything but Zagreus' heart. Zeus remakes his son from the heart and implants him in Semele who bears a new Dionysus. Hence, as in the earlier account, Dionysus is called "twice born." The latter account formed a part of the Orphic religion's religious mythology.
Birth of Dionysus
According to one myth, Dionysus is the son of the god Zeus and the mortal woman, Semele. Semele is killed by Zeus' lightning bolts while Dionysus is still in her womb. Dionysus is rescued and undergoes a second birth from Zeus after developing in his thigh. Zeus then gives the infant to some nymphs to be
Achilles is also said to have had a number of romantic episodes. He reportedly fell in love with Penthesilia, the Amazon warrior whom he killed in battle, and it is claimed that he married Medea.
After the death of Hector, Achilles' days were numbered. He continued fighting, killing many of the Trojans and their allies, including Memnon and the Amazon warrior Penthesilia. Finally Priam's son Paris, aided by Apollo, wounded Achilles in the heel with an arrow; Achilles died of it.
Dionysus (Bacchus)
Irene, Caokun May 20, 2007
Also known as Bacchus to the Romans. At first a god of vegetation, he came to be especially worshipped as the god of wine. He is supposed to have wandered over a great part of the earth spreading his cult, celebrated in frenzied festival. These festivals held each year in his honor were notorious for the frenzied and licentious behavior of the celebrants, who indulged freely in drink and sex. These festivals gave birth to the Greek theater. Dionysus is also the patron god of
This action sparked the central plot, for Achilles became enraged and refused to fight for the Greeks any further. The war went badly, and the Greeks offered handsome reparations to their greatest warrior; Achilles still refused to fight in person, but he agreed to allow his friend Patroclus to fight in his place, wearing his armor. The next day Patroclus was killed and stripped of the armor by Hector, who mistook him
In the later version, Thetis held the young Achilles by the heel and dipped him in the river Styx (Styx encircles Hades and is very gloomy and impenetrably dark.); everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remained dry and therefore unprotected.