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Dionysus punished them by driving them mad, and they killed the infants who were nursing at their breasts. He did the same to the daughters of Minyas, King of Orchomenos in Boetia, and then turned them into bats. According to Oppian, Dionysus delighted, as a child, in tearing kids into pieces and bringing them back to life again. He is ...
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (/ d aɪ. ə ˈ n aɪ s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Diónysos) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.
The Derveni krater, height: 90.5 cm (35 ½ in.), 4th century BC. The Dionysian Mysteries of mainland Greece and the Roman Empire are thought to have evolved from a more primitive initiatory cult of unknown origin (perhaps Thracian or Phrygian) which had spread throughout the Mediterranean region by the start of the Classical Greek period.
Dionysus Διόνυσος: Son of Zeus and the mortal woman Semele. [105] He is the "most versatile and elusive" Greek deity, [106] and is the god who has received the greatest attention in modern scholarship. [107] He is the god of wine, intoxication, and ecstasy, [108] and is associated with theatre, eroticism, masks, and madness. [109]
Dionysus placed the donkeys in the skies in gratitude, and in vase paintings from the classical period, satyrs and Maenads can sometimes be seen confronting their gigantic opponents. [ 76 ] A late Latin grammarian of the fifth century AD, Servius , mentions that during the battle, the eagle of Zeus (who once had been the boy Aëtos before his ...
Greek armies* Trojan armies** Abantes of Euboea: Magnesia: Amazons: Aetolia: Meliboea: Adrasteia: Argos: Minyans: Caria: Athens: Mycenae: Chalybes (Halizones) : Boebe ...
At Athens, "in Plato's time", notes Kenneth Dorter [13] "there was a discrepancy in the list of the twelve chief gods, as to whether Hestia or Dionysus was included with the other eleven. The altar to them at the agora, for example, included Hestia, but the east frieze of the Parthenon had Dionysus instead."
Lycurgus, driven mad by Dionysus, attacks his wife. Name-piece of the Lycurgus Painter, 350–340 BC. British Museum.. In Greek mythology, Lycurgus (/laɪˈkɜːrɡəs/; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος Lykoûrgos, Ancient Greek: [lykôrɡos]; also Lykurgos, Lykourgos) was the king of the Edoni in Thrace, son of Dryas, the "oak", and father of a son whose name was also Dryas.