Dionysus
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title:
Dionysus
text:
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus by the Greeks for a frenzy he is said to induce called baccheia. As Dionysus Eleutherius, his wine, music, and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound
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Ancient Greek god of winemaking and wine
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus
date created:
2002-07-22T03:41:35Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:54:49Z
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