Komos (mythology)
Komos ( ancient Greek Κῶμος , Doric Κᾶμος , Latinized Comus ) is the personification of the Dionysian pageant Komos in Greek mythology .
No myths have come down to us about Komos, but a number of depictions, in particular of vase painting , have survived . He is represented as a winged child or as a young satyr in Dionysus' entourage or as his cupbearer. In his Imagines, Flavius Philostratos describes a picture that shows Komos asleep while standing drunk after a feast. Otherwise it is only briefly mentioned in ancient literature by Nonnos .
Ben Jonson introduced the character of Komos with his mask play Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue in modern art, but was unsuccessful with his portrayal. In John Milton's 1634 mask play Comus , Comus is portrayed as the son of Bacchus and Kirke . Further artistic arrangements are based on this piece, such as Thomas Arne's opera Comus from 1738 or paintings by Edwin Landseer and Charles Robert Leslie .
literature
- Roscher: Komos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 1281 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ralph H. Singleton: Milton's Comus and the Comus of Erycius Puteanus . In: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America . tape 58 , no. 4 , December 1943, ISSN 0030-8129 , p. 949-957 , JSTOR : 458920 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Flavius Philostratos : Imagines 1, 2.
- ^ Nonnos : Dionysiaka 2, 699.
- ↑ Comus in the Tate Collection.