![]() (See Charles Shannon’s painting – The Childhood (or Education) of Bacchus – Private Collection)īk III:528-571. Snatched from his mother Semele’s womb when she is destroyed by Jupiter’s fire, he is sewn into Jupiter’s thigh, reared by Ino and hidden by the nymphs of Mount Nysa. (See Caravaggio’s painting –Bacchus – Uffizi, Florence)īk III:273-315. He carries the thyrsus, a wand tipped with a pine-cone, the Maenads and Satyrs following him carrying ivy-twined fir branches as thyrsi. ![]() His worship was celebrated with orgiastic rites borrowed from Phrygia. The god Dionysus, the ‘twice-born’, the god of the vine. An ancient royal family of Corinth, descended from Bacchis, one of the Heraclidae, founder of Syracuse. Medea has the appearance of a Bacchante.īk V:385-424. They celebrate the rites on Mount Cithaeron.īk VII:234-293. The female followers of Bacchus-Dionysus, noted for their ecstatic worship of the god.īk III:692-733. Of Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian capital of the Babylonians, in modern Iraq.īk XI:85-145. ![]()
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