<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">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.<br><br><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>"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<em></em>, but it's obvious that 'the
Outsider<em style="font-style: italic;"></em><span style="font-style: italic;">'</span> can't be his name — that it's an epithet, a nickname<wbr>.</span>"<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-iCIWy8bPccC&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=-iCIWy8bPccC&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false</a></span><br><br>That is, the instructor was wrong because he'd forgotten the /other/ god whose name was unknown.<br><br>Jerry Friedman<br><br></div><br>
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