Revelry

Revelry

Revenge (See VENGEANCE.)

Reward (See PRIZE.)

Bacchanalia festival

in honor of Bacchus, god of wine. [Rom. Religion: NCE, 203]

Boar’s Head Tavern

scene of Falstaff’s carousals. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV; II Henry IV]

Comus

hard-drinking god of festive mirth; whence, comic. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 31]

Dionysia

celebrations honoring the wine god, Dionysus. [Gk. Religion: Avery, 399, 404–408; Parrinder, 80]

Dionysus

(Rom. Bacchus) god of wine and revelry. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 39]

Fête Champêtre

erotically tinged painting of picnic scene. [Fr. Art: Daniel, 102]

Goliards

wandering scholar-poets of satirical Latin verse celebrating sensual pleasure. [Medieval Hist.: NCE, 1105]

grapes, garland of

traditional headdress of Dionysus (Bacchus). [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Jobes, 373]

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