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Romans identified Bacchus with their own Liber Pater, the "Free Father" of the Liberalia festival, patron of viniculture, wine and male fertility, and guardian of the traditions, rituals and freedoms attached to coming of age and citizenship, but the Roman state treated independent, popular festivals of Bacchus (Bacchanalia) as subversive ...
An inscription found on a stone stele (c. 340 BC), found at Delphi, contains a paean to Dionysus, which describes the travels of Dionysus to various locations in Greece where he was honored. [40] From Thebes , where he was born, he first went to Delphi where he displayed his "starry body", and with "Delphian girls" took his "place on the folds ...
Acoetes alone was saved and continued on his journey with Bacchus, [3] returning to Naxos, where he was initiated in the Bacchic mysteries and became a priest of the god. [4] In Ovid's Pentheus and Bacchus, Acoetes was brought before the King to determine if Bacchus was truly a god. After listening to Acoetes tale of being on the ship with ...
Vian has proposed looking at the poem's encyclopedic content as paralleling the full range of the Homeric cycle poetry. [15] Shorrock's contention is that the Dionysiaca employs a variety of narrative organizational principles and viewpoints, attempts to narrate all of classical mythology through the myths of Dionysus, and uses allegory and ...
Ajax the Great: Grandson of Aeacus and son of Telamon. Greek hero in the Trojan War. XII: 624, XIII: 2-390 [18] Ajax the Lesser: Son of Oïleus and Greek hero in the Trojan War. Among other things known for his raping the Trojan prophetess and princess Cassandra at the temple of Apollo. XII: 622, XIII: 356, XIV: 468 [19] Alcmene
Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–1523) [1] is an oil painting by Titian.It is one of a cycle of paintings on mythological subjects produced for Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, for the Camerino d'Alabastro – a private room in his palazzo in Ferrara decorated with paintings based on classical texts.
The Bacchae (/ ˈ b æ k iː /; Ancient Greek: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes / ˈ b æ k ə n t s, b ə ˈ k æ n t s,-ˈ k ɑː n t s /) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.
Their next book was the 2015 poetry collection Sergius Mencari Bacchus (Sergius seeks Bacchus). The book was critically well received and won first prize at the Jakarta Arts Council’s Poetry Manuscript Competition and was a finalist for the 2016 Khatulistiwa Literary Award for Poetry. [ 7 ]