-
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...
-
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...
-
Pythagoreans appear to have
survived as part of, or
deeply influenced, the
Bacchic cults and Orphism.
Pythagoras was
already well
known in
ancient times for...
-
effects each time—the
period of the ekstasis.
Initiates of the
Orphic and
Bacchic orgia practiced distinctive burial customs (see Totenp****)
expressive of...
- being, O
thrice happy one, on this same day. Tell ****phone that the
Bacchic One
himself released you. ****uality in Gr**** and
Roman Culture by Marilyn...
- from a wall-painting
usually described as a
narrative from Dionysiac/
Bacchic mystery cult,
which might also
involve Ariadne and a marriage.
There is...
