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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.
Baccheius or Bacchius (Ancient Greek: Βακχεῖος) is a Greek name and may refer to: Bacchius of Tanagra, a commentator on the writings of Hippocrates; Baccheius of Miletus, a writer. He wrote a work on agriculture. Bacchius, a gladiator; Bacchius, grandfather of Justin Martyr; Baccheius, an epithet of a wooden statue of Bacchus in ...
Bacchus (comics), comics character created by Eddie Campbell; Bacchus (grape), white wine grape variety grown in Germany and England; Bacchus (1786 ship), a vessel that made five voyages transporting enslaved people; Bacchus, an express train in Germany 1979–1998; Bacchus Motorcycle Club, an outlaw motorcycle club in Canada
Bachus may be a variant of Bacchus, the Latin name for Dionysus. ... Bacchus (1786 ship), a ... a vessel that made five voyages transporting enslaved people; Papilio ...
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.
An epithet (from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional') [1] is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. Certain epithets have been used for numerous people throughout history.
The Bacchus of Aldaia (Spanish: Baco de Aldaya) is an ancient Roman marble statuette of the Roman god Bacchus (Dionysus) that was found in La Ereta dels Moros in Aldaia, Valencia, in Spain, in two fragments between the years 1884 and 1924. [1] The god is depicted naked except for a deer skin draped over him and wearing sandals and a floral crown.
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