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Definition of Bacchanalia

Bacchanalia
Bacchanalia Bac`cha*na"li*a, n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. ?] 1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

Meaning of Bacchanalia from wikipedia

- The Bacchanalia were unofficial, privately funded po****r Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Gr**** Dionysia. They were...
- Bacchanalia is a restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. The fine dining restaurant serves American cuisine. It received one star as well as a green star in the...
- 200 BC) from Magna Graecia or by way of Gr****-influenced Etruria, the bacchanalia were held in secret and attended by women only, in the grove of Simila...
- Bacchanalia is a c. 1615 oil painting of Bacchus, Silenus, bacchantes and satyrs by Peter Paul Rubens. Originally painted on panel, it was transferred...
- tropes probably draw on Roman satyr-plays rather than the Bacchanalia themselves. The Bacchanalia cults may have offered challenge to Rome's traditional...
- but the Roman state treated independent, po****r festivals of Bacchus (Bacchanalia) as subversive, partly because their free mixing of classes and genders...
- senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus ("senatorial decree concerning the Bacchanalia") is a notable Old Latin inscription dating to 186 BC. It was discovered...
- The Black Light Bacchanalia is the twelfth album by New York heavy/power metal group Virgin Steele, released via SPV/Steamhammer on October 22, 2010 in...
- In Gr**** mythology, maenads (/ˈmiːnædz/; Ancient Gr****: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of...
- Livy's account of the introduction, growth and spread of unofficial Bacchanalia festivals, which were ferociously suppressed in 186 BC under threat of...