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Orgy
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orgy
History secret religious rites of Dionysus, Bacchus, etc., marked by drinking, dancing, and songs

Orgy 

(1) A religious rite in the mysteries associated with the cults of many ancient Oriental (Astarte, Isis, Osiris, Cybele, Tammuz), Greek (Orpheus, Dionysus), and Roman gods. Orgies were frequently unruly.

(2) A wild banquet.



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The old town has attracted its fair share of popular attention, from Frankie Howerd to Robert Harris, but rarely has it inspired the scrutiny of a classical scholar who confesses to a fascination with bad breath, Roman sex and 'the sheer puzzlement of it all.
In general she finds a number of convincing models for the whole project in ancient Roman sex manuals and erotic medals; so that she can conclude that I Modi "fits well within our understanding of the Italian Renaissance as a period of studied effort to make contact with, to explore, to appropriate and to rival another culture's production" (69).
 
 
 
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