Sacred Texts: The Classics

Pagan Regeneration: Chapter III: Dionysian Excesses

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IN A characteristic passage in the Bacchae, Euripedes, "the Rationalist," speaks of Demeter and Dionysus as the greatest of the gods. He puts into the mouth of the aged prophet Teiresias this preachment for the instruction of the honest but irreconcilable Pentheus: Two chiefest powers, Prince, among men there are: Divine Demeter-- Earth is she, name her by which name you will. She upon dry food nurtures mortal men; Then follows Semele's son, to match her gift The cluster's flowing draught…

Pagan Regeneration: Chapter III: Dionysian Excesses

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