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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.
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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.
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.
Translation. Liber, Bacchus. Dionysus riding panther, Greek mosaic from Pella C4th B.C., Pella Archaeological Museum. DIONYSOS (Dionysus) was the Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy. He was depicted as either an older, bearded god or an effeminate, long-haired youth.
context: he refers to Liber when pointing out positive aspects of the Roman god and the associated festival and cult, chooses the name Bacchus metonymically for wine and its derivatives to illustrate raving, and speaks of Dionysus in discus-sions of the Greek god and his genealogy. The term Bacchus and related words
17 lis 2016 · Remembering a god. Of all the old Greek and Roman gods, Dionysus (also known as Bacchus and Liber Pater) may be the most underestimated and misrepresented in the minds of modern-day people. While Zeus, Poseidon, Ares, Hades and Athena remain well remembered in novels, movies and videogames, Dionysus remains largely forgotten.
Here are a few examples of the most common: Pater: Father. Bacchus: from Ancient Greek Βᾰ́κχος an epithet of the god Dionysus. That word Bakkhos was itself derived from the term bakkheia; a Greek word used to describe the frenzied, ecstatic state that the god produced in people.
