Definition of Bacchical. Meaning of Bacchical. Synonyms of Bacchical

- 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...
- Italy, their likely place of origin. The reformed, officially approved Bacchic cults would have borne little resemblance to the earlier crowded, ecstatic...
- 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...
- Dionysus. Euripides wrote that honey dripped from the thyrsos staves that the Bacchic maenads carried. The thyrsus was a sacred instrument at religious rituals...
- effects each time—the period of the ekstasis. Initiates of the Orphic and Bacchic orgia practiced distinctive burial customs (see Totenp****) expressive of...
- from a wall-painting usually described as a narrative from Dionysiac/Bacchic mystery cult, which might also involve Ariadne and a marriage. There is...
- 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...
- Ornamental wellhead (puteal) (1st century AD) depicting a drunken Hercules as part of a Bacchic revel...