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  2. Midas and Bacchus (Poussin) - Wikipedia

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    This subject exhibits the avaricious King of Phrygia, attired in a blue vesture and a yellow mantle, bending on one knee supplicating Bacchus to take back the power with which he had endowed him, of changing whatever he touched into gold. The deity stands near, holding a cup in one hand, while the other is compassionately extended towards the ...

  3. List of characters in mythology novels by Rick Riordan

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    Grover Underwood is a satyr and Percy's best friend. He appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Son of Neptune, The House of Hades, The Blood of Olympus, The Burning Maze, The Chalice of the Gods and Wrath of the Triple Goddess.

  4. List of cultural references in the Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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    Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.

  5. List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior ...

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    Bacchus (portrayed by Anthony Ray Parker and Kevin Smith) - The God of Wine. In this show, Bacchus is depicted as having an appearance of a ram-horned demon and is an outcast of the Olympians. He is often accompanied by his vampiric followers, the Bacchae. Celesta (portrayed by Kate Hodge) - The fictional Messenger of the Underworld and sister ...

  6. Catullus 64 - Wikipedia

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    Her impassioned vituperations and eventual discovery by the wine-god Bacchus are some of the included plot events. The poem relies heavily on the theme of nostalgia as Catullus reflects on what he believes are better times in Roman history.

  7. Maenad - Wikipedia

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    Cultist rites associated with the worship of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus (or Bacchus in Roman mythology), were characterized by maniacal dancing to the sound of loud music and crashing cymbals, in which the revelers, called Bacchantes, whirled, screamed, became drunk and incited one another to greater and greater ecstasy.

  8. Bacchus and Ariadne - Wikipedia

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    Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–1523) [1] is an oil painting by Titian.It is one of a cycle of paintings on mythological subjects produced for Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, for the Camerino d'Alabastro – a private room in his palazzo in Ferrara decorated with paintings based on classical texts.

  9. List of Metamorphoses characters - Wikipedia

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    Daughter of the Titan Coeus and by Jupiter mother of Apollo and Diana, whom she gave birth to in Delos. Latona is the Roman name of the Greek Leto. VI: 159–346, VII: 384 [138] Latreus: Centaur who killed Halesus, but was shortly after killed by Caeneus. XII: 462-493 [139] Lethaea: Wife of Olenus. She boasted that she was more beautiful than ...