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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 ...
Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553) by Guillaume Rouillé. Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder (c. 432 – 367 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily.He conquered several cities in Sicily and southern Italy, opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies.
Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name of the Greek god, Dionysus, [1] parallel to Apollon-ios from Apollon, with meanings of Dionysos' and Apollo's, etc. The exact beliefs attendant on the original assignment of such names remain unknown.
The Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, and their equivalent of the Greek god Dionysus, the name Bacchus being another name used by the Romans for Dionysus. Hercules: son of Jupiter and Alcmene, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Heracles. Romulus and Remus: twin sons of Mars and Rhea Silvia, co-founders of Rome. Turnus: son of Venilia
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]
In 306 BC, when the surviving generals of Alexander assumed the titles of king , Dionysius followed their example, but he died soon after. The death of Dionysius must have taken place in 306 or 305 BC, as, according to Diodorus , he died at the age of 55, and after a reign of 32 or 33 years.
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 ...
Silenus commonly figures in Roman bas-reliefs of the train of Dionysus, a subject for sarcophagi, embodying the transcendent promises of Dionysian cult. In Book VI of Pausanias' Description of Greece, his grave is said to be "in the land of the Hebrews". Silenus as member of the Dionysian entourage