Abstract

PAEZ CASADIEGOS, Yidy. THE REASON OF THE SYMPOSIARCH: AN APPROACH TO THE DIONYISIAN MYSTERIES. Eidos [online]. 2008, n.9, pp.166-197. ISSN 1692-8857.

In this work, the symposiarch first submits to the audience a likeness of the shadows created by light effects, by mimes and by representations of the sacred. He begins with the name itself of the invited god, and with a narrative of the myths referring to the genealogy, diaspora, epidemics and epiphanies and the Dionysius's festival calendar; secondly, he continues with a description and analysis of the Dionysian festivals and mysteries and thirdly, he ends with an etiology of the socio-political needs linked to the cult and to the possible entheogens responsible for mystic-religious experiences of the ecstatic bacchantes.

Keywords : Bacchantes; Attic synoecism; democracy; entheogen.

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