![]() ![]() Another name used by the Romans is Liber meaning "free", due to his association with wine and the Bacchanalia and other rites, and the freedom associated with it. He is also known as Bacchus ( / ˈ b æ k ə s/ or / ˈ b ɑː k ə s/ Greek: Βάκχος, Bákkhos), the name adopted by the Romans the frenzy he induces is bakkheia. ə ˈ n aɪ s ə s/ Greek: Διόνυσος) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, orchards and fruit, vegetation, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth. Antique fresco from Pompeii.ĭionysus ( / d aɪ. Dionysus with long torch sitting on a throne, with Helios, Aphrodite and other gods.
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