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Bacchus

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Bacchus (băk`əs), in Roman religion and mythology, god of wine; in Greek mythology, Dionysus Dionysus (dīənī`səs), in Greek religion and mythology, god of fertility and wine.
..... Click the link for more information. . Dionysus was also the god of tillage and law giving. He was worshiped at Delphi and at the spring festival, the Great Dionysia. In Rome, the mysteries of his cult were closely guarded, and he was identified with an ancient god of wine, Liber Pater. Many legends connected with Dionysus were also used in the cult of Bacchus.
Bacchus
god of this season. [Rom. Myth.: Hall, 130]
See : Autumn
Bacchus
(Gk. Dionysus) god of wine; honored by Bacchanalias. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 83]
See : Debauchery
Bacchus
god of wine. [Rom. Myth.: Hall, 37, 142]
See : Wine
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I have stolen away from the crowd in the groves, Where the nude statues stand, and the leaves point and shiver At ivy-crowned Bacchus, the Queen of the Loves, Pandora and Psyche, struck voiceless forever.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
It contained one of the precious stockings; and half opening it, I revealed to Sylvia's astonished eyes the cunning little frieze of Bacchus and Ariadne, followed by a troop of Satyrs and Bacchantes, which the artist had designed to encircle one of the white columns of that little marble temple which sat before me.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
He it was that drove the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus beat them with his oxgoad.
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