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Definition of Bacchic

Bacchic
Bacchic Bac"chic, Bacchical Bac"chic*al, a. [L. Bacchicus, Gr. ?] Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.

Meaning of Bacchic from wikipedia

- Athens pla**** a major role in the development and spread of the Bacchic mysteries. The Bacchic mysteries served an important role in creating ritual traditions...
- loud-roaring and revelling Dionysus, primeval, double-natured, thrice-born, Bacchic lord, wild, ineffable, secretive, two-horned and two-shaped. Ivy-covered...
- The Bacchic C****one was a 1505–1510 panel painting by Cima da Conegliano, produced as the front panel of a decorated c****one. It is now split into four...
- become a member. A key feature that helps to identify these scenes as Bacchic is the depiction of maenads, the deity's female followers. These devotees...
- Ancient Rome pla**** a pivotal role in the history of wine. The earliest influences on the viticulture of the Italian Peninsula can be traced to ancient...
- According to some myths, Orpheus, regarded as a prophet of Orphic or Bacchic religion, died when he was dismembered by raging Thracian women. Medea...
- A Bacchic Roman puteal ("wellhead") of the Neo-Attic style, inspired by ****enistic art. Relief shows figures a Bacchic procession: a drunk Hercules (in...
- Roman marble puteal with Bacchic procession, late 1st-century CE...
- Ornamental wellhead (puteal) (1st century AD) depicting a drunken Hercules as part of a Bacchic revel...
- being, O thrice happy one, on this same day. Tell ****phone that the Bacchic One himself released you. The Orphic Hymns are 87 hexametric poems of a...