§ 7.). 15. . Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. iii. ii. the Seven Sisters were famous Oreads, On the prow an Idaean lion roars; at the stern crouches a tiger of Ganges. Bacchus had an older companion, Silenus, who became his tutor, mentor, and even foster-father. The Aigyptian king Proteus first welcomed him.". (Bacchyl. "When he [Dionysos] wanted passage across from Ikaria (Icaria) to Naxos he hired a trireme of Tyrrhenian pirates. He is alternately depicted as a young, fit, long-haired lad or an older, bearded man. "Bakkhos Perikionios (Bacchus Pericionius), hear my prayer, who madest the house of Kadmos (Cadmus) once thy care, with matchless force his pillars twining round, when burning thunders shook the solid ground, in flaming, sounding torrents borne along, propped by thy grasp indissolubly strong. The eye was gleaming with fire, in appearance the eye of a man in a frenzy; for the bronze exhibited the Bakkhic madness and seemed to be divinely inspired, just as, I think, Praxiteles had the power to infuse into the statue also the Bakkhic ecstasy." 97.) Bacchus was primarily known as the god of agriculture and wine, but was also associated with fertility, drama, and revelry. The young Bacchus learned much from Silenus, and traveled for many years as far as to what is now Asia, to teach people how to cultivate vines. but he was also the Roman god of the Edonians took Lykourgos to Mount Pangaion (Pangaeum) and bound him, and there in accordance with the will of Dionysos, he was destroyed by his horses and died.". (2) Refuge of Dionysus with Thetis 65, v. 75; Nonnus, Dionys. x. He was the 772.

iii. Although he wasn’t the most powerful, being the god of celebrations, wine, and ecstasy, he was arguably the most popular.
(Theocrit. Along with thee a troop of Bassarids in Edonian dance beat the ground, now on Mount Pangaeus' peak, now on the top of Thracian Pindus; now midst Cadmean dames has come a maenad [Agaue], the impious comrade of Ogygian Bacchus, with sacred fawn-skins girt about her loins, her hand a light thyrsus brandishing. 4. [1] ZEUS & SEMELE (Hesiod Theogony 940, Homeric Hymn 1 & 7 & 26, Pindar Odes Pythian 3, Bacchylides Frag 19, Apollodorus 3.26, Pausanias 3.24.4, Diodorus Siculus 4.2.1, Hyginus Fabulae 179, Nonnus Dionysiaca, et al) "Chug and belch away heavy crowd control with belly and wine." . Quaest. iii. (Diod. 4; Plut. In later works of art he appears in four different forms:-- the Myth of King Midas