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Definitions of bacchanalia in various dictionaries:
noun - an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)
noun - a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
The ancient Roman festival in honor of Bacchus.
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| Derived from the name of the god of wine, it's a drunken or riotous celebration |
| Taken from Roman mythology, it's another name for a drunken orgy |
| The name of a god of wine gives us this word for an orgy or a drunken feast |
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| A wild, orgiastic party or celebration. |
| the Roman festival of Bacchus. |
| The Roman festival of Bacchus. |
| Drunken celebrations. |
| an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus ( Bacchus) |
| a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity |
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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, |