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Ancient religious concepts, beliefs and practices - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Dionysus in paris
        
        botches an attempt to disguise as paris to judge the godesses
      - Dionysus failing to become a soldier and an athlete
      - Dionysus in frogs
        
        Dionysus is depicted as a buffoon, and laughable character
        
        He feels pain when beaten outside plutos palace
        
        He cannot row when in charons boat
        
        He hides behind xanthias in the underworld
        
        He is out of shape
        
        He is not unlikeable though, and can be seen as an 'everyman' character that the audience can sympathise with
        
        Becomes more serious near the end of the play
        
        He grows into his authoratative role when he has to judge the contest
        
        Humour can still hbe found in his naive interjections and inability to make his mind up
        
        it becomes apparent that he does actually want what is best for athens
        
        This reflects the idea of gods as saviours
      - Not seen as blasphemy in the context of comedy
    - - Aristophanes uses this idea to parody him
- - - - They acts as they would when alive
        
        They would rather return to the real world, made apparent by aescylus and euripides
    - - Heracles is treated as a simple dog thief
      - Pluto is shown as a friendly host
      - The underworlds waters are filled with frogs
  - - - He is concerned for athens and wants to find someone to save them
  - - - this was a dangerous topic for aristophanes to mock
        
        If he was to reveal any secrets, he would be killed
        
        If he was to upset the audience, he would likely be punished
        
        Aristophanes doesnt reveal any secrets, however he does show some reaal aspects of their worship
        
        Such as their preayer to demeter