Word: dionysus
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...pleasure of discovering what people read is very visible and very immediate," says Colette spokesman Guillaume Salmon. The book's success lies in its deft melding of high-mindedness and raunch - nothing like knowing that your penchant for outdoor sex is due to your binding zodiacal link to Dionysus, the orgiastic Greek god of wine. As Cox says, "What [readers] didn't expect were the smarty bits; they just expected the unzipped stuff, not the smarty pants themselves. Pop, but also classic, high and low." To achieve this, the book's first two sections examine questions of body, soul...
...Frogs revolves around the adventures of Dionysus (Nick J. Reifsnyder ’05), the god of drama, who is distraught by the horrible quality of tragedies that are being written. With the help of his comic slave Xanthias (Joe L. Dimento ’05) and the soup-obsessed Hercules (Brandon J. Smith ’04) he descends into hell to find a better playwright. In the second half, two dead poets, the tweedy old-fashioned Aeschylus (Benet Magnuson ’06) and the Bohemian Euripides (Alex H. Salskov ’04), face...
...with topical allusions and makes allowances for modern settings. The characters are in modern costumes, which appear to have come from the cast members’ closets (instead of a lion skin, Hercules makes do with a fake leopard skin jacket). The staging has likewise been updated; Dionysus brandishes a copy of Let’s Go Hell, the infernal judge Aeacus is an Army drill sergeant, and the contest between Aeschylus and Euripides is presented as a game show. While bizarre, these settings make good sense; the Chorus political moralizing is far more palatable when presented as part...
Unless the committee can redefine state school cool—fat chance—then there’s little hope of using social norms to dissuade many students from drinking like Dionysus...
...ancient Greeks had the same suspicion. The 5th century B.C. playwright Euripides portrayed the oppressed and frustrated women of Thebes, egged on by the wine god Dionysus, abandoning their babies in the cradle and their weaving on the loom to run off into the hills for nights of wild drinking and dancing, further enlivened by the women's enthusiastic dismemberment of any living creatures they came upon. At one point the queen mother, in her wine-addled frenzy, rips apart her own son, the king, leaving the audience with one clear lesson: keep the women indoors and those wine-filled...