Dionysus-ΔιονύσιοςBacchus-Βακχος

By Ambrose Shay

Domains

• Ecstasy -- madness in his followers, illusion, sexuality, and drunkenness

• Viticulture & Winemaking• Wine-Drinking• Mad Frenzy & Hallucination• Fruit & Vegetation• Plays & Choral Song• Homosexuality

& Effeminacy• Reincarnation

& the Afterlife

symbols• Thyrsus, grapevine, leopard skin, panther, tiger, leopard, grapes

(vine, leaves, & fruit) • wine • pomegranate • myrtle • honey • lions • bulls • goats • tigers • flute

Story

• When Dionysus saw the [wild] grapes with a bellyful of red juice, he dug into the rock, hollowed out a pit in the stone with the sharp prongs of his earth-burrowing pick, smoothed the sides of the deepening hold and made an excavation like a winepress [and made the first ever batch of wine].

Family

• Parents: Dionysus was a son of Zeus, the King of the Gods and the beautiful princess Semele. Relationships: Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and Nyx, the goddess of the night.Wife: Ariadne, the princess of CreteFamous Children: Priapus, Phthonus, Deianira

• http://www.men-myths-minds.com/Dionysus-greek-god.html

• http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Dionysus/dionysus.html

• http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Dionysos.html

http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/DionysosMyths2.html