Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : . It was furnished with ornately gilded couches, intimate pools, fountains, and accompanying benches, and a heady ambrosial smell permeated the air. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. He uttered his voice to the unhearing air, as if the girl were there to hear and obey : ‘Maiden, accept the nectar--leave this water that maidens love! How is it you alone have Eros (Love for a brother, and yet know not the sting of love . Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. He did enjoy Dionysus' company though he spited the wine-god some small part for being so difficult to rouse to frustration. And there came running thirsty at midday Aura herself, seeking if anywhere she could find raindrops from Zeus, or some fountain, or the stream of a river pouring from the hills; and Eros cast a mist over her eyelids: but when she saw the deceitful fountain of Bakkhos, Peitho dispersed the shadowy cloud from her eyelids, and called out to Aura like a herald of her marriage--‘Maiden, come this way! there was the living plant of Amyclain iris; there sang the nightingales over the spring blossoms, flying in troops above the clustering flowers. Not you alone had sweet sleep as a guide to love, not you alone drank deceitful wine which stole your maiden girdle.’", For MORE information on this nymph see NIKAIA, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. Then she addressed both gods in the same words : ‘I could wish had I two daughters, to wed one as is justly due to Earthshaker, and one to Lyaios; but since my child was not twins, and the undefiled laws of marriage do not allow us to join one girl to a pair of husbands together change and change about, let battle be chamberlain for one single bride, for without hard labour there is no marriage with Beroe. Kronois may simply be an epithet for Hera, who is elsewhere named as the mother of the Kharites. 6.
still more she killed the goatherds, killed their whole flocks of goats . Paphia [Aphrodite] was anxious, for she feared both wooers of her muchwooed girl. Sometimes athirst when beaten by the heat of the fiery Dog of heaven [the star Sirios], the girl sought out a neighbouring spring with parched lips; the girl bent down her curving neck and stooped her head, dipping a hand again and again and scooping the water of her own country to her mouth, until she had enough and left the rills. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Once he caught sight of the unyoked girl of Adonis alone, and came near, and changed his human form and stood as a god before her. In my imaginings, Dionysus must live on Olympus wihle it isn't growing season and in spring and summer he abides on Earth among vintners, vines, Maenads and other mortals. He came near to Beroe and would have spoken a word, but fear held him fast [shyness in the presence of the maiden] . While Bakkhos would be preparing a cunning device for her bed, Lelantos's daughter wandered about seeking a fountain, for she was possessed with parching thirst. ... Dionysus … Beside a fragrant myrtle he stayed his feet for a soothing rest at midday. . Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. There has been a discussion, or perhaps debate, over the words “eros” and “agape” amongst Christian theologian for quite some time.A certain amount of this discussion, or debate, focuses on the works of pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and specifically his use of eros instead of agape in The Divine Names. ə ˈ n aɪ s ə s /; Greek: Διόνυσος) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, orchards and fruit, vegetation, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth.. . Your beauty is above ambrosia; indeed, heavenly nectar breathes fragrant from your dress! . "Dionysos called Nikaia, his own Kybeleid Nymphe .
Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyrus's son, was loved by Bacchus [Dionysos] on Ismarian hills [in Thrake]. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : . So the god spoke; and changing his form for another [that of a hunter] he plunged into the shady thicket where the maiden was, Euios wholly like a hunter . 407 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. . . I, distressed for your beauty as I stand here, what have I for you, what gifts shall I offer? The fountain where young girls get a treacherous potion, and loosen the girdle they have worn all their lives . 125 ff (trans. He does not find Prosymnos, for he was dead.
. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. But a panther with understanding mind licked their bodies with her ravening lips, and nursed the beautiful boys of Dionysos with intelligent breast; wondering serpents with poisonspitting mouth surrounded the birthplace, for Aura's bridegroom had made even the ravening beasts gentle to guard his newborn children. Make treaty before the marriage, that seagod Earthshaker if he lose the victory shall not in his grief lay waste the land with his trident's tooth; and that Dionysos shall not be angry about Amymone's wedding and destroy the vineyards of the city. .
Dionysus smiled his intoxicating smile and spoke flatteringly with his honeyed tone to Eros, causing the love god to feel effects like unto those he created, "I came that I might look upon your lovely face, and ask you for some grace, by the name of your most beautiful mother." Dionysus lingered in the doorway, admiring appearance of the downy godling, who forever retained the appearance of a boy. .
Eiraphiotes [Dionysos] thought of trick after trick. When she had drunk, the girl exclaimed : ‘Naiades, what marvel is this? . "And perhaps I won't let you leave just yet, perhaps I want your company as Hades does." . . Pressing measured step by step in Beroe's tracks the god passed round her as if noticing nothing; while Earthshaker [Poseidon] stole from Lebanon with lingering feet, and departed with steps slow to obey, turning again and again, his mind shifting like the sea and rippling with billows of ever-murmuring care. So she went to the banks of Sangarios, threw into the water her backbending bow and her neglected quiver, and leapt headlong into the deep stream, refusing in shame to let her eyes look on the light of days. Do not accept his sealskins. . ", Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. . Then Iobakkhos [Dionysos] seeing her on the bare earth, plucking the Lethaean feather of bridal Sleep, he crept up noiseless, unshod, on tiptoe, and approached Aura where she lay without voice or hearing. When the vinebridegroom had consummated his wedding on that silent bed, he lifted cautious foot and kissed the bride's lovely lips, loosed the unmoving feet and hands, brought back the quiver and bow from the rock and laid them beside his bride. 5 (trans. Why did you also drink wine, Aura, until you were with child? . His hair was long and golden, his features soft just like those of his mother; he was a beautiful youth as opposed to a handsome one. The reckless youth fell picking gaudy grapes on a branch. Priapos (trans. Curi… I beseech you, in the name of that bed on the ground where the marriage was consummated, what bridegifts did Dionysos your husband bring? . "Nikaia, the leader of the rites of Lyaios .
Spare not your girdle, but attend Bakkhos both as comrade and bedfellow. Do not shame your mother's race. . In company with Beroe's father [Adonis], the son of Myrrha, he showed his hunting-skill. "Now the ancients record in their myths that Priapos was the son of Dionysos and Aphrodite and they present a plausible argument for this lineage; for men when under the influence of wine find the members of their bodies tense and inclined to the pleasures of love. "His words have haunted me since I was a child, true though it was that I shall never reach his stature.
He slid his hand out of Eros' grip with the force and speed of lightning. Too late he spoke, and hardly then, when he burst the chain of shame from his lips and undid the procrastinating silence, and asked Beroe in a voice of pretence, ‘Artemis, where are your arrows?
He leaned against a tree and listened to the west breeze whispering, overcome by fatigue and love; and as he sat there, a Hamadryas Nymphe at home in the clusters of her native tree, a maiden unveiled, peeped out and said, true both to Kypris and to loving Lyaios : ‘Bakkhos can never lead Aura to his bed, unless he bends her first in heavy galling fetters, and winds the bonds of Kypris round hands and feet; or else puts her under the yoke of marriage in sleep, and steals the girl's maidenhood without brideprice.’ .
This page describes the various liaisons of the god. Did he give you brazen rattles for your children to play with?
The nocturnal rites performed every year in honor of Dionysus I must not divulge to the world at large. She [Aura] took the babes and laid them in the den of a lioness for her dinner. to C1st A.D.) : Be the first to share a picture of this printed object, 7132 Museo Archeo Nazionale Di Napoli.stl, collections where you can find Dionysus and Eros by, Subscribe to MMF+ for Exclusive Offers on Phrozen Printers & Resin (limited availability). . So she made trouble upon trouble for lovestricken Lyaios . Will he choose his salt water for a bridegift, and lay sealskins breathing the filthy stink of the deep, as Poseidon's coverlets from the sea? Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus 7 (Greek Christian epistles C2nd A.D.) : Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. Eros was one of her sons. AMPELOS (Ampelus) A handsome young Satyr-boy loved by the god Dionysos.
In return for his help he asked the god to lie with him. He lifted the large vessel and drank from it directly. .’ Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : Ovid, Fasti 3. . Shall I bring you gleaming gifts [amber] from brilliant Eridanos? The rewards was not a seemly one, though to Dionysos it was seemly enough. Then if you would wed the maid, first fight it out together; let the winner lead away Beroe without brideprice. He smiled knowing that Eros would not even notice the arrow, musing that by now he should be halfway through the potent wine. Dionysos was left alone! Thereupon a certain man, Prosymnos by name, promises to tell him; though not without reward. He moved closer to the wine god, smirking, unwary, reacting involuntarily to Dionysus' inviting demeanor. The god grudging at Poseidon ruler of the waves felt fear and jealousy, since the maiden drank water and not wine. Your beauty, your blushing whiteness, puts to shame all the wealth of the Heliades; the neck of Beroe is like the gleams of Dawn, it shines like amber, outshines a sparkling jewel; your fair shape makes precious marble cheap. 407 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. . [See Family]. However, when Hypolipnus saw him, a mere boy in years, excelling all others in remarkable beauty of form, he asked from him the reward that could be given without loss. .
When she saw equal desire and ardour of love in both, she announced that the rivals must fight for the bride, a war for a wedding, a battle of love. ", Suidas s.v. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Orphic Hymn 57 to Chthonian Hermes (trans.
567 ff (trans. He smiled, he could always ease those pains later. He left to the winds the bed of Aura still sleeping, and returned to his Satyroi with a breath of the bridal still about him.
", Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. The very feeling which encourages mortals to drink beyond their fill…, Dionysus continued to coo, not betraying any upset, for his plan was not failing, despite the feelings of Eros. Zeus's wife Hera, a jealous and vain goddess, discovered the affair while Semele was pregnant, appearing as an old crone (in other stories a nurse). .
She fitted the bodice again about her chest, and bound the maiden girdle again over her round breast--too late! Its cause, too, takes a moment to teach. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : He told her his name and family, the slaughter of the Indians, how he found out for man the vine-dance and the sweet juice of wine to drink; then in loving passion he mingled audacity with a boldness far from modesty, and his flattering voice uttered this ingratiating speech : ‘Maiden, for your love I have even renounced my home in heaven. When fiery Eros beheld Aura stumbling heavyknee, he leapt down from heaven, and smiling with peaceful countenance spoke to Dionysos with full sympathy : ‘Are you for a hunt, Dionysos?