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Dionysus

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (/daɪ.əˈnaɪ.səs/ ⓘ; Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Diónysos) is the god of wine-making, orchards, fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus (/ˈbækəs/ or /ˈbɑːkəs/; Ancient Greek: Βάκχος Bacchos) by the Greeks (a name later adopted…

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Abode
Mount Olympus
Animals
Bull, panther, tiger or lion, goat, snake, leopard, fox
Egyptian
Osiris
Festivals
Bacchanalia (Roman), Dionysia
Parents
Zeus and Semele
Roman
Liber

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related to Etymology · 87
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related to Further reading · 60
Dionysus → Abingdon, Academia, Albert Henrichs, Altertumswissenschaft, An, April, Arthur Goldhammer, Athens, Attica, Bacchanalia, Between City, Book, Cabinet, Classics, Constructing Authority, Country, Cult, Cultic Dimensions, Department, Description
related to Modern literature and philosophy · 40
Dionysus → Ancient Greek, Apollo, Apollonian, Beyond Good, Christ's, Christianity, Dionysian, Dionysianism, Dionysus's, Early Dionysianism, Ecce Homo, Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, German, Golders Green Crematorium, Greek, Greek Tragedy, Greek Zoê, He, However
related to First birth · 39
Dionysus → According, AD, After, Cronus, Demeter, Diodorus, Dionysiaca, Dionysos, Dionysus Zagreus, Egyptian, Egyptian Dionysus, Gaia, He, Hera, His, However, Hyginus, In, India, Indian
related to Eleusinian Mysteries · 36
Dionysus → An, And, As, Bacchic, Bacchus, BC, BC Athenian, Berlin, Bromius, Cithaeron, Delphi, Delphian, Demeter's Eleusis, Dionysus's, Eleusinian Mysteries, Eleusis, Euripides, From, From Thebes, Giver
related to Late Antiquity · 34
Dionysus → Apollo, Bacchus, Ceres, Diana, Dionysus's, Egyptian, Emperor Julian, For, Hades, Helios, Helios-Dionysus, Hymn, In, Juno, Jupiter, King Helios, Late Antiquity, Mars, Mercury, Minerva
related to Liber and importation to Rome · 33
Dionysus → Aventine, Aventine Hill, Aventine Triad, Bacchic, Bacchus, BC, Campania, Ceres, Cicero, Dionysus-like, Free Father, Greek, Greek-influenced Etruria, He, Imperial, In Roman, It, Italy, Liber, Liber Pater
related to Classical art · 32
Dionysus → AD, Ancient Greece, Barberini Faun, BC Derveni Krater, Belvedere Torso, But, Classical, Dancer, Dancing Satyr, Dionysian, Dionysus Sardanapalus, Greek, Hellenistic, Hermaphrodite, Hermes, In, Infant Dionysus, Ludovisi Dionysus, Mazara, Neo Attic
related to Hades · 32
Dionysus → Aides Kyanochaites, Among, Ancient, Archaic, BC, Chthonios, Demeter, Dionysian, Eleusis, Eubouleus, Euclius, Evidence, Hades, Hades's, He, Heraclitus, Homeric Hymn, Italy, Karl Kerényi, Lord
related to Orphism · 29
Dionysus → Aeschylus, Ancient Greek, BC, Byzantine, Callimachus, Dionysos, Dionysos Zagreus, Euphorion, Gaia, Greek, Hades, Hades's, However, In, It, Nonnus, Nonnus's Dionysiaca, Noting, Orphic, Orphic Dionysus

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zeus god also bacchus greek semele wine bc mysteries name hades century liber one son roman cult according birth dionysus's

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DionysusAbodeMount Olympus1.00infobox
DionysusAnimalsBull, panther, tiger or lion, goat, snake, leopard, fox1.00infobox
DionysusEgyptianOsiris1.00infobox
DionysusFestivalsBacchanalia (Roman), Dionysia1.00infobox
DionysusParentsZeus and Semele1.00infobox
DionysusRomanLiber1.00infobox
DionysusSpouseAriadne1.00infobox
DionysusSymbolThyrsus, grapevine, ivy, theatrical masks, phallus, fox-fur robes1.00infobox
Dionysusis ason of Zeus and Demeter0.90text
Dionysusis ason of Ammon0.90text
Matthew Arnold identified Phanes as a prototype for Dionysusinstance ofwho may correspond to the Dionysian women of later periods.Some 19th-century classicists0.80text
and argued that he was originally venerated not as a bringer of wineinstance ofwho may correspond to the Dionysian women of later periods.Some 19th-century classicists0.80text

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