-
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...
- 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...
- Italy,
their likely place of origin. The reformed,
officially approved Bacchic cults would have
borne little resemblance to the
earlier crowded, ecstatic...
- Dionysus.
Euripides wrote that
honey dripped from the
thyrsos staves that the
Bacchic maenads carried. The
thyrsus was a
sacred instrument at
religious rituals...
-
maintained that the
satyr play is a
survival from “the
primitive period of
Bacchic worship”.
Haigh lists several examples of
recorded entries to the City...
-
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...
- of the
period is
devoted to the
cupbearer or wine pourer,
combining the
bacchic (خمريات jamriyyat) and
homoerotic (مذكرات mudhakkarat) genres. It began...
-
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...
-
effects each time—the
period of the ekstasis.
Initiates of the
Orphic and
Bacchic orgia practiced distinctive burial customs (see Totenp****)
expressive of...
