Webbasis of Agrionia. In Agrionia. …is that the daughters of Minyas, king of Orchomenus, having despised the rites of the god, were driven mad by Dionysus and sacrificed …

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WebBook 4 opens with the daughters of Minyas who have refused to participate in the rites of Dionysus: they sit indoors, weaving at their looms, and entertain themselves by telling stories. The first sister passes over three alternatives from her repertory of Babylonian stories before she settles on an appropriate story to tell. Two of these At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia, and while the other women and maidens were reveling and ranging over the mountains in Bacchic joy, these sisters alone remained at home, devoting themselves to their usual occupations, and thus profaning the days sacred to the god. Dionysus punished them by changing them into bats, and their work into vines. Plutarch, Aelian, and Antoninus Liberalis, though with some differences in the detail, relate that … raxhon ans

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WebOne of the daughters suggests they each tell a story to pass the time. Minyas’s daughters feel that Bacchus and his festivals are extremely impractical. Instead, they worship … WebArsippe, Alcathoe (or Alcithoe), and Leucippe (or Leuconoe); daughters of Minyas, founder of Orchomenus in Boeotia, they resisted the cult of Dionysos/Bacchus (qq.v.), were driven mad and transformed into bats. Web[The daughters of Minyas scorn Bacchus; the first daughter tells the story of Pyramus and Thisbe; the second tells the story of Venus and Mars being trapped by Vulcan while having sex, and then the story of Helios and Leucothoë: how Leucothoë is transformed into a plant and Clytië into a heliotrope; the third sister, Alcithoë, tells the story of … raxhephon