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Dionysus in Greek mythology is a god of foreign origin, and while Mount Nysa is a mythological location, it is invariably set far away to the east or to the south. The Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysus places it "far from Phoenicia , near to the Egyptian stream ". [ 245 ]
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]
Dionysus and members of his thiasos on an Attic black-figure krater-psykter (525–500 BCE, Louvre Museum) In Greek mythology [1] and religion, the thiasus [a] was the ecstatic retinue of Dionysus, often pictured as inebriated revelers. Many of the myths of Dionysus are connected with his arrival in the form of a procession.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... In Greek mythology, Pherespondus (Ancient Greek: Φερέσπονδος) was the satyr herald of Dionysus during the ...
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In Greek mythology, Silenus (/ s aɪ ˈ l iː n ə s /; Ancient Greek: Σειληνός, romanized: Seilēnós, IPA: [seːlɛːnós]) was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. He is typically older than the satyrs of the Dionysian retinue , and sometimes considerably older, in which case he may be referred to as a Papposilenus.
Staphylus (/ ˈ s t æ f ɪ l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Στάφυλος "grape cluster") is one of several personages of ancient Greek mythology, almost always associated with grapes or wine: Staphylus, son of wine-god Dionysus and Ariadne. [1] Staphylus, beloved of Dionysus, from the island of Thasos. It is thanks to Dionysus' love for him that ...