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Dionysia
(redirected from Festival of Dionysus)

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Dionysia: see Dionysus Dionysus (dīənī`səs), in Greek religion and mythology, god of fertility and wine.
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Dionysia
celebrations honoring the wine god, Dionysus. [Gk. Religion: Avery, 399, 404–408; Parrinder, 80]
See : Revelry


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Indeed, in Symposium Alcibiades uses the ribbons due Agathon for Agathon's first-place play at the festival of Dionysus - the symposium's occasion - to crown Socrates (213e), an action which presents Alcibiades as Dionysus and Socrates as the divine Silenus of Alcibiades' ensuing argument ("Isn't he just like a statue of Silenus?
Shakespeare's Dionysian prince: drama, politics, and the "Athenian" ... by Tiffany, Grace / Renaissance Quarterly
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