Word: dionysus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Silenus. In Athenian drama, Pappo-silenus (Daddy Silenus) was the father of many Silenuses. In Greek mythology the handsome Hermes begat a single Silenus. This paunchy roisterer was the tutor of Dionysus. Together they cultivated bees and vines, sampled the wines. Peter Paul Rubens painted Der Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...
This book contains four long poems, Dionysus in Doubt, Genevieve and Alexandra, Mortmain, Demos and Dionysus, elaborate philosophic acros tics, graphs of spiritual collisions; many sonnets, some like a goldsmith's gargoyles, precise in horror, some mere laconic footnotes to metaphysical debate, some that are compressed short stories...
...Dionysus IN DOUBT ? Edwin Arlington Robinson?Macmillan...
...returning to the U. S. from relief work abroad, Greece, oldest and youngest republic in the world, offered to loan the U. S. "for any length of time the Government may desire it," the most beautiful statue bequeathed to her by antiquity. The statue is Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus, the chef d'oeuvre of Praxiteles, famed Greek sculptor of the 4th Century...