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noun - (Greek mythology) god of wine and fertility and drama
The god of wine and of an orgiastic religion celebrating the power and fertility of nature.
DIONYSUS - Dionysus (; Greek: Dionysos) is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in an...
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| Sophocles' plays were 1st performed on the Acropolis in the theater named for this god |
| The last Greek god to be deified, the Romans called him Bacchus |
| This Greek god loved a boy named Ampelos, who was turned into a grapevine when he died |
| Fufluns was the Etruscan counterpart of this Greco-Roman god of grape guzzling |
| EMAIL ADDRESS:wine_and ariadne_iover@party-on.god |
| Pan hung out a lot with this wine god, known to some as Bacchus |
| Ancient Greeks believed that wine was a gift from this god, the Greek equivalent of Bacchus |
| The Maenads were frenzied followers of this God of wine & vegetation |
| His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes |
| Denise is derived from the name of this Greek god of wine |
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| bDionysusb (da.nass Greek: , bDionysosb) is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology. |
| (Greek mythology) god of wine and fertility and drama the Greek name of Bacchus |
| in Greek mythology ( ancient stories), a god connected with wine, celebration, and fertility ( the growth of crops): |
| A Greek god, son of Zeus and Semele his worship entered Greece from Thrace c.1000 BC. Originally a god of the fertility of nature, associated with wild and ecstatic religious rites, in later traditions he is a god of wine who loosens inhibitions and inspires creativity in music and poetry. |
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| Dionysus (; Greek: Dionysos) is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in ancient Greek religion and myth. Wine played an important role in Greek culture, and the cult of Dionysus was the main religious focus for its unrestrained consumption. His worship became firmly established in the seventh century BC. He may have been worshipped as early as c. 15001100 BC by Mycenean Greeks; traces of Dionysian-type cult have also been found in ancient Minoan Crete. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. In some cults, he arrives from the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in others, from Ethiopia in the South. He is a god of epiphany, "the god that comes", and his "foreignness" as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. He is a major, popular figure of Greek mythology and religion, becoming increasingly important o |