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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 ...
Ampelos (Ancient Greek: Ἂμπελος, lit. " Vine ") or Ampelus ( Latin ) was a personification of the grapevine and lover of Dionysus in Greek and Bacchus in Roman mythology . He was a satyr that either turned into a constellation or the grape vine, due to Dionysus .
Acoetes (Ancient Greek: Ἀκοίτης, romanized: Akoítēs, via Latin: Ăcoetēs) was the name of four men in Greek and Roman mythology. Acoetes, a fisherman who helped the god Bacchus. [1] Acoetes, father to the Trojan priest Laocoön, who warned about the Trojan Horse.
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.
Not often identifiable in Greek art, she appeared as a modestly veiled woman. Her symbols are the hearth and kettle. She plays little role in Greek myths, and although she is omitted in some lists of the twelve Olympians in favour of Dionysus, no ancient tale tells of her abdicating or giving her seat to Dionysus. [47]
The Infant Bacchus, painting (c. 1505–1510) by Giovanni Bellini. 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]
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
In Euripides' play The Bacchae, Theban Maenads murdered King Pentheus after he banned the worship of Dionysus because he denied Dionysus' divinity.Dionysus, Pentheus' cousin, lured Pentheus to the woods—Pentheus wanted to see what he thought were the sexual activities of the women—where the Maenads tore him apart and his corpse was mutilated by his own mother, Agave.