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Bacchus

deity earth Roman corroborated · 14

Bacchus is the god of wine and viticulture. He fell in love with Amethyste, but she spurned his affections. In one story, he declared that the first person he met would be devoured by his tigers, which turned out to be Amethyste.

↻ synthesized from 14 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested as son of Dione in 5th-century CE sources.

Relationships

co occurs with
Janus, Portunus, Cardea, Terminus, Forculus, Lima, Limentinus, Aether, Proserpina, Cupid, Juno, Flora, Ceres, Neptune, Hebe, Aurora, Ganymede, Aquilon, Zéphyr, Minos, Ampelos, Eros, Calamos, Ariadne, Victory, Hercules, child-Pan, Aeolus, Amethyste, Diana, Terra, Mercury, Venus, Vulcan, Mars, Minerva, Pluto, Minotaur, Apollo, Pan, Silenus, satyr, Theseus, Thetis, Peleus, genius loci
consort of
Ariadne
syncretized with
Dionysus, Fuflu, Pacha, Liber Pater
served by
tiger, Maenads
child of
Dione, Jupiter

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Mentioned by

and 9 more

Sources

wikipedia (13)
  1. Amethyste
  2. Dione (Titaness)
  3. Liminal deity
  4. Le Réveil de Flore
  5. Les surprises de l'Amour
  6. Eclogues of Nemesianus
  7. Ariadne (Greuze painting)
  8. Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
  9. L'Arianna
  10. Bacchus and Ariadne
  11. Catullus 64
  12. Sarcophagus of the Triumph of Bacchus (Lyon)
  13. The Four Seasons (Sozzi)
encyclopedia (1)
  1. Andros (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“Instead it was French poet Rémy Belleau (1528–1577) who invented a myth in which Bacchus fell in love and chased Amethyste in his poem L'Amethyste, ou les Amours de Bacchus et d'Amethyste ("The Amethyst, or the loves of Bacchus and Amethyst").”

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“The 5th-century grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria described Dione as the mother of Bacchus in her entry from his Alphabetical Collection of All Words.”

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“Bacchus, Roman name for Dionysus”

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“The chariot of Bacchus and Ariadne is accompanied by bacchantes, satyrs, fauns, sylvans, and others.”

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“celebrating Bacchus, the local patron god. Anacreon addresses to his beautiful slave girl, Lycoris (ballerina), a warm request that she cheer up the party with the bloom of her youth and that she be the priestess of all gods he adores, including Cupid as well as Bacchus”

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