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Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius.. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is sometimes said to be derived from the Greek Dios (Διός, "of Zeus") and Nysos or Nysa (Νῦσα), where the young god was raised.
Denise, with several spelling variations, is a female given name. Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, and the name Denise means "to be devoted to Bacchus ." [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The names may thus appear in ancient writing in any of their cases. Dionysios itself refers only to males. The feminine version of the name is Dionysia, nominative case, in both Greek and Latin. The name of the plant and the festival, Dionysia, is the neuter plural nominative, which looks the same in English from both languages.
Dionysus extending a drinking cup (late sixth century BC). The dio-prefix in Ancient Greek Διόνυσος (Diónūsos; [di.ó.nyː.sos]) has been associated since antiquity with Zeus (genitive Dios), and the variants of the name seem to point to an original *Dios-nysos. [18]
Pronunciation: Bayawt Shamawsh Meaning: House of Sun Caesar, Augustus (son of Gaius Octavius & Atia) Person 63 BC: AD 14: Latin: AVGVSTVS CAESAR (Augustus Caesar) Pronunciation: Ow-goos-toos Kie-sar Canaan: Nation Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 KNʿN Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 Pronunciation: K-naw-un Caiaphas, Joseph ben: Person 14 BC: AD 46
According to Richard Buxton, Bromius (Bromios) is another name for a fundamental divine figure that precedes Ouranus and Night in Orphic myth. [ citation needed ] This alternative view to Hesiod was discovered by a fragmentary papyrus discovered in Derveni, Macedonia (Greece) in 1962, which is referred to as the Derveni papyrus .
Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus. Eleuther, one of the twenty sons of Lycaon. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia.
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