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In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (/ d aɪ. ə ˈ n aɪ s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Diónysos) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.
Ampelos, Greek lover of Dionysus transformed into the grapevine. Amphictyonis, Greek goddess of wine and friendship. Ash, Egyptian God of Wine and Oases. Bacchus, Roman god of wine, usually identified with the Greek Dionysus. Ba-Maguje, Hausa spirit of drunkenness. Bes, Egyptian god, protector of the home, and patron of beer brewers.
The grape clusters, vines and wine cups that adorn Greek coins from classical times bear witness to the importance of wine to the ancient Greek economy. With every major trading partner, from the Crimea , Egypt, Scythia, Etruria and beyond, the Greeks traded their knowledge of viticulture and winemaking, as well the fruits of their own production.
Dionysus with Hermes, a silenus and grapes Wine boy at a symposium. The origins of wine-making in Greece go back 6,500 years [9] [10] and evidence suggesting wine production confirm that Greece is home to the second oldest known grape wine remnants discovered in the world [6] [9] [11] and the world's earliest evidence of crushed grapes. [9]
He was a god of the grape and of wine; his early ludi scaenici virtually defined their genre thereafter as satirical, subversive theatre in a lawful religious context. Some aspects of his cults remained potentially un-Roman and offered a focus for civil disobedience.
The god Osiris (Dionysus) left Maron, who was now old, in that land to supervise the culture of the plants which he introduced to the a city. [7] "Maron who haunts the vines at Ismaros and, by planting and pruning them, makes them produce sweet wine, especially when farmers see Maron handsome and splendid, exhaling a breath sweet and smelling ...
Amphictyonis / ˌ æ m f ɪ k ˈ t aɪ ə n ɪ s / (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφικτυονίς, romanized: Amphiktuonís) in Greek mythology is a goddess of wine and friendship between nations, a local form of Demeter.
In Greek mythology, Acratopotes (Ancient Greek: Ἀκρατοπότης), the drinker of unmixed (as in not diluted with water) wine, was a hero worshiped in Munychia in Attica. [1] According to Pausanias, who calls him simply Acratus, he was one of the divine companions of Dionysus, [2] who was worshiped at Attica. [3]