-
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...
-
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...
-
journey with Bacchus,
returning to Naxos,
where he was
initiated in the
Bacchic mysteries and
became a
priest of the god. In Ovid's
Pentheus and Bacchus...
- her
public image.
Other accounts have a
treacherous Helen who
simulated Bacchic rites and
rejoiced in the
carnage she caused. In some versions,
Helen does...
- Some
scholars think that
customs of the
Rosalia were ****imilated into
Bacchic festivals of the dead by the
Roman military,
particularly in Macedonia...
- Italy,
their likely place of origin. The reformed,
officially approved Bacchic cults would have
borne little resemblance to the
earlier crowded, ecstatic...
- him. Enraged, the
women tore him to
pieces during the
frenzy of
their Bacchic orgies. In
Albrecht Dürer's
drawing of Orpheus's death,
based on an original...
-
recuperation from
illness or
injury Telete,
goddess of
initiation into the
Bacchic orgies Thyone,
mortal mother of Dionysus, who
later was made the goddess...
- drown. Hera
encourages the
Hydaspes to
drown the
Bacchic troops as they
cross the river. The
Bacchic army
starts to
cross the
Hydaspes using strange means...
