of place, yet I cannot but own my strong confidence in the correctness of the general conclusions arrived at; and I gladly take this opportunity of expressing a deep sense of thankfulness to those great minds of the past and of the present, whose previous labours have alone rendered the compilation of this work possible.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

THE SUBJECT AND ITS TREATMENT.

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Design of the Work; objections considered 1

Recent undue extension of Aryan principles 4

Unity of man and of Ood 5

The sources of Religious-mythology 6

Its essentially compound character 8

Treatment of the subject adopted 10

Style of nomenclature 11

Relation of the enquiry to present questions 12

CHAPTER II.

THE DIONYSOS OF THE THE0L0GER8.

SECTION L

THE HOMERIK DIONYSOS.

Subsection I.—The Episode of Lykourgos.

Consideration of H. vi. 128-41 15

Homerik consistency as shown in the conduct of Diomedes. . . 17

Real meaning of the legend 19

Overthrow of opposers of the Dionysiak cult 21

Subsection II.—Dionysos Son of Semele.

Consideration of //. xiv; 325 . . . 22

Important historic element in the legend of Kadmos . . . .23

Dionysos as a source of joy 24
Subsection III.—Dionysos and Naxos.

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Consideration of Od. xi. 321 24

Nysa and Dionysos 25

Subsection IV.—Dionysos and the Tyrsenoi.

The legend of the Homerik Hymn 26

Savage side of the cult 27

Subsection V.—The Youth of Dionysos.

The impersonation of joyous country life 27

Subsection VI.—General Character of the Dionysos of

the Homerik Hymns.

Dionysos a Semitic divinity 28

Ilia solar aspect 29

Progress of historic research 30

Subsection VII.—Dionysos and the Kyklik Poems.

Survival of the Ilias and Odysseia 31

Dionysos as Zagreus 31

Myth of Roio and her sisters in the Kyprian Verses .... 32

Care required in drawing explanations from names 33

Subsection VIII.—Eikon of the Homerik Dionysos.

The two aspects of the Earth-god 34

Dionysos not the Homerik Wine-god 35

SECTION II.

THE DIONYSOS OF HESIODOS.

Subsection I.—Dionysos Son qfSemele.

Consideration of Theog. 940-2 36

Dionysos as Phanes and Phaidimos 37

Subsection II.—Dionysos and Ariadne.

Phoenician character of Minos 38

Pompeian fresco of Dionysos and Ariadne 39

Subsection III.—Grapes the Gift of Dionysos.

Double aspect of wine \ 40

Subsection IV.—Eikon of the Hesiodik Dionysos.

His foreign and kosmogonic character 40

SECTION HI.

THE OKPHIK DIONYSOS.

Subsection I.—Thrake and Orphik Mysticism.

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Mythical Thrakian bards 41

Asiatic connection of Thrake 42

The Orphik ritual not derived from Kam 43

Quotation from the Batrachoi 44

Subsection II.—Dionysos and Apollon.

Theory of Macrobius 44

Oracle of Apollon Klarioe 45

Bunsen and Bishop Browne on the Oracle 46

The Aryan and Semitic Sun-gods 47 .

Subsection III.—Dionysos tlis Demiurge.

Consideration of Orphik Fragment vii. 48

Pantheism, or God in All as opposed to All in God . . . . 50

The Demiurge reduces the Universe to order 61

And is manifested chi»fly in a Solar aspect 52

Bishop Colenso on the Iao-myth........ 54

Iao a name of the Hebrew Yahveh 55

The circumstance no assistance to the anti-religionist .... 57

Iao in Gnostic art 59

Subsection IV.—Dionysos and Zeus.

The Orphik concept of Zeus 60

The kosmic Zeus-Dionysos ^.^1^

Subsection V.—The Neo-Platonik Orphik Hymns.

Dionysos son of Persephone 62

Various Dionysiak epithets 63

Seilenos ............ 65

Adonis ............. 66

Subsection VI.—Neo-Platonism.

Cause of its rise 67

Taylor, the last Neo-Platonist 68

Worthlessness of the system ....*... 69

Subsection VII.—Eikon of the Orphik Dionysos.

The solar Demiurge 70