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1. Dionysian, Characteristic of the god Dionysus or the cult of worship of Dionysus; specifically, of a sensuous, frenzied, or orgiastic character

2. An ivy leaf was branded on the devotee of Dionysus.”

3. Within the ship is a well over life sized figure, the god Dionysus.

4. Among the floats was a 15-foot Dionysus pouring a libation from a golden goblet.

5. 15 Beside Demeter when the cymbals sound Enthroned sits Dionysus of the flowing hair.

6. In Euripides’ Bacchae, careful examination of the character Dionysus illuminates discrepancies in action based on gender.Ultimately, Dionysus’ effeminate nature compounded with his subversive measures toward women and male proclivities suggest an inherent duality.

7. The Greeks went from the theater of Dionysus to the Parthenon in their sandals.

8. In Bacchae the god Dionysus arrives in Greece from Asia intending to introduce his orgiastic worship there

9. As an institution, the Claque dates from performances at the theatre of Dionysus in ancient

10. The Bacchae: Euripides’ Critical Portrayal Of the Cult of Dionysus 6 bull (lines 778-780)

11. Bacchantes: see maenads maenads, in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, female devotees of Dionysus

12. Bacchantes and Maenads were women who worshiped the Greek god Dionysus, or Bacchus to the Romans

13. Achates, a Sicilian who came to Aristaeus in order to join Dionysus in his Indian campaign

14. 3 The tragedy is developed form the bacchanal doxology as one part of the fete ceremony of Dionysus.

15. The Bacchae of Euripides is a major source for the ancient Greek conception of Dionysus, but not the only source

16. The Apollonian and Dionysian is a philosophical concept, or dichotomy, based on certain features of ancient Greek mythology: Apollo and Dionysus

17. Anastrophe is a Greek myth technology in Age of Mythology that is available to worshipers of Dionysus and can be researched at the Dock

18. Bacchanalia, also called Dionysia, in Greco-Roman religion, any of the several festivals of Bacchus (Dionysus), the wine god. They probably originated as rites of fertility gods.

19. Cabirus, a patron god of Thessalonica; Dionysus and Aphrodite; and Isis from Egypt all had something in common: a highly sexualized worship full of orgiastic rites and revelries.

20. O Kalash relacionar uma história de Bacanal de Alexander com os moradores da montanha alegando descendência de Dionysus.: The Kalash relate a story of Alexander's bacchanal with mountain dwellers claiming descent from Dionysus.: Como no Bacanal do ano passado.: Like last year at the bacchanal.: Em vez de realizar negociações, o governo preferiu libertar um Bacanal de ditadura.

21. He is thus a god of the ages, associated with mystery religions concerned with the afterlife, such as the mysteries of Cybele, Dionysus, Orpheus, and Mithras.

22. The Apollonian stands for Apollo, the Greek god of reason, logic, and light; the Dionysian comes from Dionysus, the god who represented the wilder passions associated with wine and fertility

23. The Bacchae by Euripides Translated by Ian Johnston A twisted tale, where the God of wine, Dionysus, exacts revenge on behalf of his mother and to establish his God Status

24. The Frogs by Aristophanes First performed in 405 BC at the Lenaea—an annual Athenian festival in honor of Dionysus — The Frogs is one of Aristophanes’ comic masterpieces.

25. Another deity whose violent death and restoration to life were celebrated by the Greeks was Dionysus, or Bacchus; he, like Adonis, has been identified with the Babylonian Tammuz.

26. There are currently 28 Duo Boons in Hades, shared between 8 different gods: Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Demeter, Poseidon, and Zeus. Hermes and Chaos will never offer Duo Boons.

27. The Bacchae The city of Thebes is torn apart by the conflicting demands of reason and religion, as the disguised god Dionysus returns to his home town demanding to be worshipped

28. Aristophanes gives us a very different, comedic version of Dionysus in his play, the Frogs , which was produced in 405 BC, around the same time as the production of the Bacchae …

29. The Bacchae Dionysus, the god of wine, prophecy, religious ecstasy, and fertility, returns to his birthplace in Thebes in order to clear his mother's name and to punish the insolent city state for …

30. Admiringly Sentence Examples Most commonly Ariadne is represented asleep on the shore at Naxos, while Dionysus, attended by satyrs and bacchanals, gazes Admiringly upon her; sometimes they are seated side by side under a spreading vine

31. Admiringly Sentence Examples Most commonly Ariadne is represented asleep on the shore at Naxos, while Dionysus, attended by satyrs and bacchanals, gazes Admiringly upon her; sometimes they are seated side by side under a spreading vine

32. Yet, these women were Bacchants, that is, Dionysian orgiasts, and in other versions Dionysus himself directs them to kill Orpheus because the bard, in his devotion to Apollo the sun-god, has prevented the wine-god's acceptance in Thrace.

33. This animal imagery is also applied to the female disciples of Dionysus (the bacchants) in the Bacchae, where these women are dressed “with boughs of oak and fir, and decorate cloaks of dappled fawnskin with fringes of white wool” (lines 94-96).

34. While Pentheus is being costumed offstage by Dionysus for the hero’s impending ordeal in the mountains, where he will be torn limb from limb by the Bacchants of myth, there is a choral song being sung and danced by the Bacchants of the ritual that is the drama of the Bacchae

35. Silenus Apostrophizing the absent Dionysus O Bromius, labors numberless have I had because of you, now and when I was young and able-bodied! First, when Hera drove you mad and you went off leaving behind your nurses, the mountain-nymphs; 1 [5] next, when in the battle with the Earthborn Giants 2 I took my

36. THE Bacchanals OF EURIPIDES [53] So far, I have endeavoured to present, with something of the concrete character of a picture, Dionysus, the old Greek god, as we may discern him through a multitude of stray hints in art and poetry and religious custom, through modern speculation on the tendencies of early thought, through traits and touches in our own actual states of mind, which may seem