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Revision as of 18:27, 18 November 2013 by 166.216.226.23 (talk) (Undid revision 582236764 by Saddhiyama (talk))(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) "Bacchus" redirects here. For other uses, see Bacchus (disambiguation). This article is about the Greco-Roman deity. For other uses of the names "Dionysus" and "Dionysos", see Dionysos (disambiguation). For other uses of the theophoric name "Dionysius", see Dionysius (disambiguation).
Dionysus
God of Wine, Merry Making, Theatre and Ecstasy
2nd-century Roman statue of Dionysus, after a Hellenistic model (ex-coll. Cardinal Richelieu, Louvre)
AbodeMount Olympus
SymbolThyrsus, grapevine, leopard skin, panther, tiger, leopard
MountMount Olympus
Genealogy
ParentsZeus and Semele
SiblingsAres, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos, the Muses, the Graces
ConsortAriadne
Equivalents
RomanBacchus, Liber

Dionysus /daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/ (Template:Lang-grc, Dionysos) was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped c. 1500–1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek.<ref>Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought, Allsworth press, 2002, pp. 118–121. [http://books.google.co.za/books?id=vTfm8KHn900C&lpg=PA118&dq=dionysus%2

  1. Another variant, from the Spanish royal collection, is at the Museo del Prado, Madrid: illustration.
  2. Kerenyi 1976.