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In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; ) is the god of wine-making, orchards, fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known as Bacchus ( or ; ) by the Greeks (a name later adopted by the Romans) for a frenzy he is said to induce called baccheia. His wine, music, and ecstatic dance were considered to free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wan

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Dionysus was an ancient Greek god associated with wine, theatre, fertility, and ecstatic religious experiences, whose wine, music, and dancing were believed to liberate his followers from fear and social constraints. He mattered to the Greeks because his cult offered a form of spiritual and social release through ritual madness and celebration, while his connection to theatre made him central to their dramatic traditions.

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Key facts

Deity.type
Greek
Deity.name
DionysusBacchus
Deity.image
Dionysos Louvre Ma87 n2.jpg
Deity.caption
Second-century Roman statue of Dionysus, after a Hellenistic model (ex-coll. Cardinal Richelieu, Louvre)
Deity.god_of
God of wine, vegetation, fertility, festivity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre
Deity.member_of
the Twelve Olympians
Deity.abode
Mount Olympus
Deity.animals
Bull, panther, tiger or lion, goat, snake, leopard, fox
Deity.symbol
Thyrsus, grapevine, ivy, theatrical masks, phallus, fox-fur robes
Deity.festivals
Bacchanalia (Roman), Dionysia
Deity.parents
Zeus and Semele
Deity.Roman_equivalent
Liber
Deity.equivalent1_type
Egyptian
Deity.equivalent1
Osiris
Deity.spouse
Ariadne

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Wikidata facts

Gender
male
Spouse
Ariadne
Child
Telete
Father
Zeus
Mother
Demeter
Image
Dionysos Louvre Ma87 n2.jpg
Said to be same as
Liber
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Category:Dionysus
Commons category
Dionysos
worshipped by
Greek mythology
described by source
Pauly–Wissowa
name in native language
Διόνυσος
present in work
Dionysiaca
domain of saint or deity
wine
different from
Dionysos
iconographic symbol
aulos
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