(urth) Dionysus and the Outsider

[Jerry Friedman]

Sorry, I didn't read a lot of the posts about Dionysus, so I may be duplicating 
something someone else said.  But people are saying that the Outsider was the 
son of Thyone, that is, Dionysus.  I read the passage quite differently.  Silk 
says there are two gods whose names are unknown: the son of Thyone and the 
Outsider.  So they're two different gods.  They're mentioned together and have 
anonymity in common, though, so some might draw conclusions from that.

"He [Silk's instructor] also said that Thyone's son was the only god whose name 
we don't know.  It was years before I realized that he'd been wrong.  We speak 
of the Outsider, but it's obvious that 'the Outsider' can't be his name — that 
it's an epithet, a nickname."

http://books.google.com/books?id=-iCIWy8bPccC&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false

That is, the instructor was wrong because he'd forgotten the /other/ god whose 
name was unknown.

Jerry Friedman


      
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