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Updated: June 17, 2025
Some say that Theseus left her sleeping on Naxos among the Cyclades; and that Dionusos the wine-king found her, and took her up into the sky, as you shall see some day in a painting of old Titian's, one of the most glorious pictures upon earth.
But I will see that the sanctity of the altar is preserved, by confining the combat to the stage. And as for the pantomime which will follow, if you would only fall in with my fancy of the triumph of Aphrodite, Dionusos would hardly refuse his altar for the glorification of his own lady-love. 'Ah that myth is a late, and in my opinion a degraded one.
In the light of it, she assumes her toga virilis; and it is sacred to her god Liber. To her god Liber, observe: not Dionusos, still less Bacchus, but her own ancient and simple deity.
'Ah! answered Hypatia; 'the first step in the downward career of the drama began when the successors of Alexander dared to profane theatres which had re-echoed the choruses of Sophocles and Euripides by degrading the altar of Dionusos into a stage for pantomimes! 'Which your pure mind must, doubtless, consider not so very much better than a little fighting.
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