"The
Corybantic Rites in Plato." University of California Publications in Classical Philology 13:121-62.
Using the metaphor of frenzied religious festival celebration, Socrates compares the poets to
Corybantic dancers and Bacchic revelers.
Self calls Millet a "relentless fabulist" who is "cloven in two by Elysian ecstasy and
corybantic abandon."
Furthermore, the word, corivas meant enthusiasm and corivantismos purification with
corybantic ritual (Michailidis 73).
At the height of their devotions, the maenads were seized by violent raptures, to which they surrendered entirely; absorbed in the formless beauty of the god, and tormented by fitful intimations of his presence, they worshipped him with cries of longing and delight, desperate invocations, wild dithyrambs, delirious dance, inebriation, and the throbbing din of
corybantic music; abandoning all sense of themselves, they suffered visions and uttered prophecies, fell ravished and writhing to the earth, or sank into insensibility.
What am I thinking?" And at a recent revival of his 1999 work
Corybantic Ecstasies at the Boston Ballet, he saw plenty of choreography he would have chucked in retrospect.
In both fables of possession we see how ritual motion and
corybantic chanting bring about the psychological birth of the aliens.
Zambello should have known better than to try to maneuver two principals of this size in
corybantic gyrations.
As today's celebrants of
corybantic Romanticism, they enrich culture.
But on the other hand, the ecstatic,
corybantic appeal of rap is equally stressed, and the need for immersing oneself in it somatically, rather than intellectually: "...
Schopenhauer once accused the followers of Hegel of celebrating the works of their master "with
corybantic shouting." Most of the commentators in this book are more decorous than that.
Wheeldon premiered a new Firebird at Boston in October, and he created
Corybantic Ecstasies for the company last season.