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  2. Nonnus - Wikipedia

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    Mosaic of Dionysus from Antioch. Nonnus's principal work is the 48-book epic Dionysiaca, the longest surviving poem from classical antiquity. [6] It has 20,426 lines composed in Homeric Greek and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return. The poem is to be dated to ...

  3. Cult of Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus named the ancient city of Nicaea after her. [269] In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, Eros made Dionysus fall in love with Aura, a virgin companion of Artemis, as part of a ploy to punish Aura for having insulted Artemis. Dionysus used the same trick as with Nicaea to get her fall asleep, tied her up, and then raped her.

  5. Dionysian Mysteries - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Apollonian and Dionysian - Wikipedia

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    The Apollonian and the Dionysian are philosophical and literary concepts represented by a duality between the figures of Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.Its popularization is widely attributed to the work The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, though the terms had already been in use prior to this, [1] such as in the writings of poet Friedrich Hölderlin, historian Johann ...

  7. The Great Gatsby - Wikipedia

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    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

  8. The God Abandons Antony - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus (Bacchus): The god of wine and pleasure, symbolises the fortune that suddenly disappears from Anthony (protagonist) which leads to his inevitable downfall. [4] Exquisite sounds: The triumphant noises heard throughout the city are a sign of the beautiful moments, the successes of life that are commemorated at the end of someone's life.

  9. Semele - Wikipedia

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    Semele (/ ˈ s ɛ m ɪ l i /; Ancient Greek: Σεμέλη, romanized: Semélē), or Thyone (/ ˈ θ aɪ ə n i /; Ancient Greek: Θυώνη, romanized: Thyṓnē) in Greek mythology, was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother [1] of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.