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"Strong mead was served and the drinking was heavy. Next to Ægir sat Bragi. They drank together and exchanged stories. Bragi [the skaldic god of poetry] told Ægir about the many things that had happened to the Æsir."
Prose Edda, Skáldskaparmál

🏛 A stone from Gotland depicting a Norse drinking scene, Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, Stockholm

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Is there a Norse god who fills a similar role to Dionysos?
The Norse did not have theatre nor wine. There is no god of mead or beer as far as I know. There is no god or goddess of festivities I think but I'm happy to be proven wrong!

🏛 #Satyr giving a grapevine to Bacchus as a child; cameo glass, from first half of the 1st century CE Italy

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Is there a Norse god who fills a similar role to Dionysos?
The Norse did not have theatre nor wine. There is no god of mead or beer as far as I know. There is no god or goddess of festivities I think but I'm happy to be proven wrong!

🏛 #Satyr giving a grapevine to Bacchus as a child; cameo glass, from first half of the 1st century CE Italy

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

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Is there a Norse god who fills a similar role to Dionysos?
The Norse did not have theatre nor wine. There is no god of mead or beer as far as I know. There is no god or goddess of festivities I think but I'm happy to be proven wrong!

🏛 #Satyr giving a grapevine to Bacchus as a child; cameo glass, from first half of the 1st century CE Italy

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

Is there a Norse god who fills a similar role to Dionysos?
The Norse did not have theatre nor wine. There is no god of mead or beer as far as I know. There is no god or goddess of festivities I think but I'm happy to be proven wrong!

🏛 #Satyr giving a grapevine to Bacchus as a child; cameo glass, from first half of the 1st century CE Italy

#antiquidons #history #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Dionysos #Satyrday

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

Is there a Norse god who fills a similar role to Dionysos?
The Norse did not have theatre nor wine. There is no god of mead or beer as far as I know. There is no god or goddess of festivities I think but I'm happy to be proven wrong!

🏛 #Satyr giving a grapevine to Bacchus as a child; cameo glass, from first half of the 1st century CE Italy

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Dionysos and his pet panther welcome the new year 🥂

"Bacchus himself, grape-bunches garlanding his brow, brandished a spear that vine-leaves twined, and at his feet fierce spotted panthers lay, tigers and lynxes too, in phantom forms."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.664

🏛 Dionysos with a Panther, 2nd century CE, The State Hermitage Museum

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"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

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"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

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"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

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"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

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"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos, "Papposilenos Dionysophoros", 350-300 BCE, Tanagra

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"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos

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"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

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"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos

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"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos

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"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 #Silenos holding Baby Dionysos

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"The Egyptians say that Demeter [Isis] and Dionysos [Osiris] are the rulers of the lower world. The Egyptians were the first who maintained the following doctrine, too, that the human soul is immortal, and at the death of the body enters into some other living thing then coming to birth"
Herodotus, Histories 2.123

🏛 Dionysos and Nike, National Archaeological Museum Athens

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"After Dionysos had demonstrated to the Thebans that he was a god, he went to Argos where again he drove the women mad when the people did not pay him honour, and up in the mountains the women fed on the flesh of the babies suckling at their breasts."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.37

🏛 Dionysos Mosaic, 325–330 CE, Antakya or Antiochia

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"By their songs and dancing and other talents in which they had been instructed these maidens delighted the heart of the god."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 Dionysos & #Ariadne, 5th century Krater, National Archaeological Museum of Naples

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K12.11.html

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"He rent rams, skins and all, and clove them piecemeal and cast the dead bodies on the ground; and again with his hands he neatly put their limbs together, and immediately they were alive and browsed on the green pasture."
Oppian, Cynegetica 4.230

🏛 Dionysos bust decorating a fulcrum, 2nd century BCE Greece

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"Goatherd Pan cried out: ‘I wish my father had taught me the trick of that matchmaking wine! I wish I could be lord of the mindtripping grape, like Bakkhos [Dionysos]!’"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16.289

🏛 Dionysos and Pan, 50-150 CE

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"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43

🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy

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"Braurôn: A place in Attika, in which the Dionysia used to be held and they drank and snatched up many prostitutes."
Suidas s.v. Brauron

🏛 Dionysos glass bead, #Pompeii

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"From the condition produced by wine they liken Dionysos to a [...] panther, because they who have indulged too freely are prone to violence [...] There are some drinkers who [...] become like wild beasts in their desire to fight, whence the likeness to a panther."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.38e

🏛 Dionysos with Panther terracotta figurine, Myrina, 1st century BCE

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"Dionysos may not be without noise on his voyage; and its prow is drawn out in the semblance of a golden leopardess. Dionysos is devoted to this animal because it is the most exciteable of animals and leaps lightly like a Bakkhe."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1.19

🏛 Roman #mosaic, ca 2nd century CE, House of Dionysos in Museo della città Santa Giulia, Brescia

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"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313

🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens

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"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313

🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens

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"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313

🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens

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"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313

🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens

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"[Dionysos] summoned Pherespondos, one of the swift like the wind, the offspring of the heavenly herald [Hermes], the clever son of Iphthime, and greeted him with friendly words : ‘Son of Hermes, herald that I love, go take this message to proud Deriades."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 18.313

🏛 Drinking cup (kylix) with Dionysos and a horny satyr, 490–480 BCE, Attica, Athens

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"Proklos attributed aesthetic qualities of the dithyramb and nome to the characters of the gods addressed: orgiastic melody, words and rhythms for Dionysos, dignity for Apollon."
Greek Hymns: Selected Cult Songs from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period by William Furley, 2021
https://doi.org/10.2307/4352965

🏛 Dionysos & Apollon on a silver disk or coin

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"Dionysos mingles in the wine new powers,
Sending high adventure to the thoughts of men."
Bacchylides, fragment "For Alexander son of Amyntas", from a 1st century papyrus

🏛 Roman bronze figure of Dionysos, dated 1st century CE, now in private collection

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"Dionysos made blonde-haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and the son of Kronos [Zeus] made her deathless and unageing for him."
Hesiod, Theogony 947

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🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne - Roman Fresco 1–79 CE - Getty Museum

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"Blessed Bakkhos, god of wine . . . Fertile and nourishing, whose liberal care augments the fruit that banishes despair."
Orphic Hymn 50

🏛 Roman mosaic of #Bacchus giving a libation, National Museum of Beirut

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"Lord [Dionysos], with whom Eros the subduer and the blue-eyed Nymphs, and radiant Aphrodite play, as you haunt the lofty mountain peaks."
Anacreon, Fragment 357

🏛 #Dionysos on a chariot pulled by Maenads, Cameo, 1st century BCE

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"The offspring of Semele discovered a match to it, the liquid drink of the grape, and introduced it to mortals. It releases wretched mortals from grief whenever they are filled with the stream of the vine, and gives them sleep, a means of forgetting their daily troubles."
Euripides, Bacchae 275

🏛 Dionysos relief, 1st century CE, Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli

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"Dionysos, in his wrath, sent against him [Orpheus] the Bassarides (as Aeschylus tells the story), who tore him to pieces and scattered his members, which were collected and buried by the Muses in Leibethra."
Aeschylus, Bassarides (lost play)

🏛 Orpheus attacked by the Bassarides or Thracian women

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"Dionysos caused Lykourgos to go mad. In this state, thinking he was cutting a vine-branch, Lykourgos killed his son Dryas by cutting off his arms and legs with an axe. Then he regained his senses."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 34-35

🏛 The Lycurgus Cup, made from dichroic glass, which changes colour when held up to the light. 4th century CE.

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"[Pentheus] was seen by the Maenads more than he saw them, for sitting on high he was all but apparent, and the stranger was no longer anywhere to be seen when a voice, #Dionysos as I guess, cried out from the air: ‘Young women, I bring the one who has made you and me and my rites a laughing-stock. Now punish him!’"
Euripides, Bacchae 990

🏛 Pentheus' death, red-figure kylix, ca. 480 BCE

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"Proitos and Stheneboia had Lysippe, Iphinoe & Iphianassa. When these three had grown up, they went mad, as Hesiod says, because they didn't accept the mystic rites of #Dionysos [...] In their maddened state they rambled over all of Argos, then, passing through Arkadia, they ran through the wilderness in total disarray."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.26

🏛 4th century BCE Bell Krater

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"Androgynos (androgynous): [A word applied to] Dionysos, as one doing both active, male things and passive, female ones [specifically sexual intercourse]."
Byzantine Greek lexicon Suidas, entry Androgynos

🏛 A Roman silver ring with erotic intaglio, 3rd century CE

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"#Bacchus on hills the fair Adonis saw,
And ravished him, and reaped a wondrous joy."
Plutarch, Quaestiones convivales 4.5.3

🏛 Dionysos Mosaic, Archaeological Museum in Thessalonica, Greece

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"Dionysos was loved by Chiron, from whom he learnt the songs and dances, and the Bacchic rites and initiations."
Ptolemaios Chennos

🏛 Illustration of #Chiron by Ezio Anichini, photographed by Alexis Orloff
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aorloff/5306516568/

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"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid, Fasti 3. 407

🏛 #Dionysos supported by #Ampelos, bronze, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE

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"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid, Fasti 3. 407

🏛 #Dionysos supported by #Ampelos, bronze, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE

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"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid, Fasti 3. 407

🏛 #Dionysos supported by #Ampelos, bronze, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE

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"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid, Fasti 3. 407

🏛 #Dionysos supported by #Ampelos, bronze, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE

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"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid, Fasti 3. 407

🏛 #Dionysos supported by #Ampelos, bronze, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE

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The Campi Flegrei near Naples are a volcanic area that is known for bradyseism, a gradual descent or uplift of the earth's surface due to magma movement. Buildings of the Roman era, complete with intact art, are now submerged in the sea. A fitting conclusion to MerMay 🧜‍♀️

🏛 #Dionysos, side view, Underwater Archaeological Park of Baia

https://www.parcoarcheologicosommersodibaia.it

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