Definition of Bacchic. Meaning of Bacchic. Synonyms of Bacchic

- Athens pla**** a major role in the development and spread of the Bacchic mysteries. The Bacchic mysteries served an important role in creating ritual traditions...
- loud-roaring and revelling Dionysus, primeval, double-natured, thrice-born, Bacchic lord, wild, ineffable, secretive, two-horned and two-shaped. Ivy-covered...
- Ancient Rome pla**** a pivotal role in the history of wine. The earliest influences on the viticulture of the Italian Peninsula can be traced to ancient...
- Ornamental wellhead (puteal) (1st century AD) depicting a drunken Hercules as part of a Bacchic revel...
- Italy, their likely place of origin. The reformed, officially approved Bacchic cults would have borne little resemblance to the earlier crowded, ecstatic...
- journey with Bacchus, returning to Naxos, where he was initiated in the Bacchic mysteries and became a priest of the god. In Ovid's Pentheus and Bacchus...
- become a member. A key feature that helps to identify these scenes as Bacchic is the depiction of maenads, the deity's female followers. These devotees...
- The Bacchic C****one was a 1505–1510 panel painting by Cima da Conegliano, produced as the front panel of a decorated c****one. It is now split into four...
- him. Enraged, the women tore him to pieces during the frenzy of their Bacchic orgies. In Albrecht Dürer's drawing of Orpheus's death, based on an original...
- Semele Princess of Thebes Goddess of the Bacchic frenzy Member of the Theban Royal Family Jupiter and Semele (1894-95) by Gustave Moreau Other names Thyone...