The Bacchic Mysteries - Thomas Taylor

Part 3 of The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries
By Thomas Taylor
Read by Dan Attrell
This is one 18th/19th century Platonist's account of what the Orphic mysteries of Dionysus were all about.
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[@Nivloc317]

I am really enjoying your recitation of Thomas Tayler's work, but I have a question. He obviously wrote in English in an alliterating form from translations that were from Greek. I know that rhyming as a poetic device wasn't really common until around the 800 or 900 AD, so it seems odd that this work should rhyme at all. Can you tell me to what degree that Thomas Tayler took liberties with the translations of the original greek??

[@TheModernHermeticist]

So the Greek and Latin bits he provides (and which are here omitted for brevity) are usually in dactylic hexameter. Since this meter or rhythm is wonky in English (and everything rhymes in an inflected language like Latin), it was customary for poetry translators to convert from a poetic convention that worked in one language to another that worked in another. This definitely forced authors to take many poetic liberties, for which reason we see far fewer translations done this way today (look at your average Homer and Virgil trans. And few of them rhyme anymore).

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@@TheModernHermeticist Thank you. I assume, and trust, due to his obvious translation skills, that the meaning provided in the original verse was maintained, regardless of his change in poetic style.

[@ChristianCatboy]

Beautiful. As a (very heterodox) Christian, I like to contemplate these "pagan myths" as symbols for the process of creation and salvation. To me, Zeus definitely is the Demiurge; that is, the highest conception of God that the human mind can grasp, who remains imperfect and finite, and therefore unworthy of worship as the Ground and Abyss of Being. So, the myth of Christ is more spiritually regenerative for me than the myth of Dionysos (though I still find some Spiritual truth in the latter), because it's more grounded in the real world, where even the most "innocent" people can be oppressed and murdered by cruel governments. I wish the Lord's Supper could be more of a Bacchic feast, though. The Church fathers were too one-sidedly devoted to Apollonian reason imho.

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How weird that for so long humans acted as if they can control the Sun through Gods when in fact we're prisoners of the Sun. Textbook Stockholm syndrome :)

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