Dionysus

quoted 9 times by 4 works · as a person

Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.

7 quoted · 2 reported

7 neutral 2 endorsed

in the voice of Chorus Leader 1 , Hymnic speaker 1 , Kadmos 1 , Pentheus 1 , Second Messenger 1 , Teiresias 1 , hymnic speaker 1 , singers 1 , some and others 1

quoted by

4 works

in the voice of Teiresias
Bacchae Euripides 5 neutral 5 citations · 34 passages

bacchae 34 passages anchored here

Teiresias directly addresses Pentheus, attributing to Dionysus the doctrine of his divine power, prophetic gift, and necessity for mortal life.

Dionysus will not compel women to be modest in regard to Aphrodite, but in nature you must look for that.

bacchae ¶
in the voice of some and others
Hymn 1 to Dionysus Homeric Hymns 1 neutral 1 endorsed 2 citations · 4 passages

hymn 1 to dionysus 4 passages anchored here

The passage repeatedly frames birthplace claims as what some or others say.

For some say, at Dracanum;

hymn 1 to dionysus ¶
in the voice of hymnic speaker
Hymn 26 To Dionysus Homeric Hymns 1 endorsed 1 citation

hymn 26 to dionysus

The passage contains direct hymnic address to Dionysus as praise and invocation.

I begin to sing of ivy-crowned Dionysus, the loud-crying god, splendid son of Zeus and glorious Semele.

hymn 26 to dionysus ¶
in the voice of Hymnic speaker
Hymn 7 to Dionysus Homeric Hymns 1 neutral 1 citation

hymn 7 to dionysus

The closing apostrophe is a direct address to Dionysus.

I am loud-crying Dionysus whom Cadmus' daughter Semele bare of union with Zeus.

hymn 7 to dionysus ¶

the marks

authority: relied on as a source of legitimacy
neutral: identified or reported
refuted: argued against
extended: developed or continued
endorsed: agreed with
roman: the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
italic: named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
¶: the passage in this text that does the citing
7: beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.