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Definitions of bacchanal in various dictionaries:
noun - someone who engages in drinking bouts
noun - a drunken reveller
noun - a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
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| From the name of an ancient Roman festival, it now refers to any riotous or drunken festivity |
| 3 A's: A follower of the wine god, or an occasion of drunken revelry |
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| a wild and drunken celebration. |
| A wild and drunken celebration. |
| A priest, worshipper, or follower of Bacchus. |
| a drunken reveller a devotee of Bacchus |
| someone who engages in drinking bouts |
| a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity |
| used of riotously drunken merrymaking |
| A participant in the Bacchanalia. |
| The Bacchanalia. Often used in the plural. |
| A drunken or riotous celebration. |
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The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They seem to have been popular, and well-organised, throughout the central and southern Italian peninsula. They were almost certainly associated with Rome's native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC but like all mystery religions of the ancient world, very little is known of their rites. * Livy, writing some 200 years after the event, offers a scandalised, extremely colourful account of the Bacchanalia. Modern scholarship takes a skeptical approach to his allegations of frenzied rites, sexually violent initiations of both sexes, all ages and all social classes, and the cult as a murderous instrument of conspiracy against the state. Livy claims that seven thousand cult leaders and followers were arrested, and that most were executed. * Senatorial legislation to reform the Bacchanalia in 186 BC attempted to control their size, organisation, and priesthoods, |