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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...
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Ornamental wellhead (puteal) (1st
century AD)
depicting a
drunken Hercules as part of a
Bacchic revel...
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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...
- Italy,
their likely place of origin. The reformed,
officially approved Bacchic cults would have
borne little resemblance to the
earlier crowded, ecstatic...
-
maintained that the
satyr play is a
survival from “the
primitive period of
Bacchic worship”.
Haigh lists several examples of
recorded entries to the City...
- A
Bacchic Roman puteal ("wellhead") of the Neo-Attic style,
inspired by ****enistic art.
Relief shows figures a
Bacchic procession: a
drunk Hercules (in...
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According to some myths, Orpheus,
regarded as a
prophet of
Orphic or
Bacchic religion, died when he was
dismembered by
raging Thracian women. Medea...
- Dionysus.
Euripides wrote that
honey dripped from the
thyrsos staves that the
Bacchic maenads carried. The
thyrsus was a
sacred instrument at
religious rituals...
