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26 maj 2023 · Liber (also known as Liber Pater or Bacchus) was the Roman god of fertility and wine, identified from an early period with the Greek god Dionysus. He was worshipped alongside Ceres and Libera on the Aventine Hill in Rome.
- Ariadne
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- Theseus
Apollodorus, Library 3.15.6, translated by James G....
- Minotaur
Greek. Plutarch: Plutarch’s Life of Theseus (first century...
- Osiris
Overview. Osiris, the “Mighty One,” was both god of the dead...
- Giants
Overview. The terrible Giants, offspring of the primordial...
- Juno
Overview. Juno (or Iuno in Latin) was the queen of the Roman...
- Demeter
Overview. Demeter was one of the Twelve Olympians and the...
- Greek Heroes
Hesiod, Works and Days 160. ↩; Hesiod, Works and Days...
- Ariadne
The Bacchanalia were unofficial, privately funded popular Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They were almost certainly associated with Rome's native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC.
Liber's associations with wine, inebriation, uninhibited freedom and the subversion of the powerful made him a close equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus, who was Romanised as Bacchus.
8 sie 2023 · Bacchus was the god of wine and revelry in Roman mythology. Considered the most versatile and elusive of the gods, with a Greek equivalent in Dionysus, Bacchus is frequently associated with the Roman god of wine Liber Pater. He brought joy wherever he went, but if crossed, he could be a vengeful god, driving one into madness.
27 wrz 2024 · Dionysus, also called Bacchus, in Greco-Roman religion, a nature god of fruitfulness and vegetation, especially known as a god of wine and ecstasy. In early Greek art he was represented as a bearded man, but later he was portrayed as youthful and effeminate.
Dionysus or Bacchus Roman name: Bacchus or Liber Pater (Free Father) Epithets: Twice-Born, Bromios (Thunderer) Symbols: the thyrsus (a staff carried by maenads), the maenads or bacchae or bacchants (his female followers), vines, satyrs, wine, drinking cup, bull, panther, snakes. Function: god of wine and drunkenness. The Birth of Dionysus
12 maj 2019 · The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy. They were based on the Greek Dionysia and the Dionysian mysteries, and probably arrived in Rome c. 200 BC via the Greek colonies in southern Italy, and from Etruria, Rome’s northern neighbour.
