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Dancing Maenad Roman copy of Greek original attributed to Kallimachos c. 425 –400 BCE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Greek mythology, maenads (/ ˈ m iː n æ d z /; Ancient Greek: μαινάδες) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the thiasus.
In 2014, Dionysus was featured in Smite as a playable god under his Roman Bacchus name. In 2018, Dionysus was featured in Hades, an indie action dungeon crawler video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. All of his boons and powers are based on his key traits from his Mythos, focusing on alcohol-related abilities and negative ...
In addition, Dionysus is known as Lyaeus ("he who unties") as a god of relaxation and freedom from worry and as Oeneus, he is the god of the wine press. In the Greek pantheon, Dionysus (along with Zeus) absorbs the role of Sabazios, a Phrygian deity. In the Roman pantheon, Sabazius became an alternate name for Bacchus. [14]
Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos") Another view. The Hope Dionysus is a statue of Dionysus, the god of wine, wearing a panther skin and casually stretching his left arm over a smaller figure of a woman, in a Neo Attic or archaic pose. This statue, 82 1 ⁄ 4 in. (2.1 m) high, dates to between 27 BC and 68 AD.
The Bacchus of Aldaia (Spanish: Baco de Aldaya) is an ancient Roman marble statuette of the Roman god Bacchus (Dionysus) that was found in La Ereta dels Moros in Aldaia, Valencia, in Spain, in two fragments between the years 1884 and 1924. [1] The god is depicted naked except for a deer skin draped over him and wearing sandals and a floral crown.
Dionysus, called Narcissus (Italian: Dioniso, così detto Narciso) is a bronze ancient Roman statuette, created between the 1st century BC. and 1st century AD e.. It was found during excavations in Pompeii in 1862. The statuette is believed to be a Roman copy of an ancient Greek original from the 4th century BC. [1]
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Iacchus is associated with Dionysus at least as early as the 5th century BC. [32] The association may have arisen because of the homophony of the names Iacchus and Bacchus, one of the names of Dionysus. Two black-figure lekythoi (c. 500 BC) may represent the earliest evidence for such an association.