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- In Gr**** mythology and religion, the thiasus was the ecstatic retinue of Dionysus, often pictured as inebriated revelers. Many of the myths of Dionysus...
- The House of Thiasus (Italian: Casa del Tiaso) is a house in Pompeii that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It is located on Via...
- In Gr**** mythology, Thiasus or Thiasos (Ancient Gr****: Θίασός means 'Bacchic revel, rout') may refer to: Thiasus, one of the leaders of the satyrs who...
- madness. The thyrsus, ****ociated with the followers of Dionysus (the satyrs, thiasus, and maenads or Bacchantes), is a symbol of prosperity, fertility, hedonism...
- Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche Cult (religious practice) Theatre of Dionysus Thiasus, or thiasos Apollodorus (Pseudo Apollodorus), Library and Epitome, 1.3...
- Archaeologists announced the discovery of a large frieze at the House of Thiasus in Pompeii, depicting the Dionysian Mysteries. 5 – Nature published a study...
- followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the thiasus. Their name, which comes from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “to rave, to be mad;...
- some place beyond the borders of the known and civilized. His procession (thiasus) is made up of wild female followers (maenads) and bearded satyrs with...
- Dionysus to a drinking contest and lost, resulting in his joining the Thiasus for a period. Heracles also appears in Aristophanes's The Frogs, in which...
- Hierophant Hierophylakes Iatromantis Kanephoros Mystagogue Oracle Sibyl Thiasus Religious objects Baetyl Cult image Chryselephantine sculpture Xoanon Gr****...