Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia - Dionysus
Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Dionysus In Neopaganism
Modern Neopagans view Dionysus in different lights, depending largely on the individual sects and the other gods worshipped by a sect. Di...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dionysus: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Dionysus
Dionysus A major Greek god, the son of Zeus and Semele.   He was the patron of wine and drama and generally of those experiences...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Worship
Dionysus is a god of mystery religious rites, such as those practiced in honor of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens. In the T...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Osiris: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Osiris
Osiris/Dionysus A manufactured name used to indicate the dying and resurrecting god-man from about 300 BC in Egypt (Osiris), Greece (D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bacchanalia: Encyclopedia - Bacchanalia
The Bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus. Introduced into Rome from lower Italy by way of Etruria (c. 200 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia - Hera
In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hêra (World Book «HIHR uh») (Greek Ἥρα or Ἥρη) was the wife and sister ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aventine Hill: Encyclopedia - Aventine Hill
The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills that ancient Rome was built on. It was a strategic point in controlling trade on the River Ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bacchants: Encyclopedia - Bacchants
Bacchants were female devotees to Bacchus, the god of wine in ancient Rome. They were also known as Maenads for the Greek god Dionysus. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Semele: Encyclopedia - Semele
In Greek mythology, Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mother of Dionysus (the god and his votaries were both identified as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ampelos: Encyclopedia - Ampelos
In Greek mythology, Ampelos ("vine") was a satyr and good friend of Dionysus. Ampelose (singular: Ampelos) were also a variety of hamadry...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autonoe: Encyclopedia - Autonoe
In Greek mythology, Autonoë (Greek Ἀυτονόη) was a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia. She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maenad: Encyclopedia - Maenad
In Greek mythology, Maenads [MEE-nads] were female worshippers of Dionysus, the Greek god of mystery, wine and intoxication, and the Roma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bacchus: Encyclopedia - Bacchus
Bacchus is the name of: The Greek god Dionysus, also known to Romans. The Christian martyr Saint Bacchus, companion to Saint Sergius; se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iacchus: Encyclopedia - Iacchus
In Greek mythology, Iacchus is an uncertain person. It may be an epithet for Dionysus (in Eleusis, a son of Zeus and Demeter) or a separa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butes: Encyclopedia - Butes
In Greek mythology, the name Butes referred to four different people. Aphrodite's lover and a Sicilian king. He was the father of Eryx b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anius: Encyclopedia - Anius
In Greek mythology, Anius was the son of Apollo and Rhoeo. Anius was born on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acis: Encyclopedia - Acis
In Greek and Roman mythology, Acis was the god of the Acis River near Mount Etna in Sicily. He was originally a Sicilian youth, and was o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agave Mythology: Encyclopedia - Agave Mythology
Agave ("illustrious") was the queen of Thebes in Greek mythology, mother of Pentheus and daughter of Harmonia and Cadmus. She was a Maena...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoetes: Encyclopedia - Acoetes
Acoetes was a figure in Greek mythology. As a young man, Dionysus was exceptionally attractive. Once, while disguised as a mortal on a sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ipotane: Encyclopedia - Ipotane
In Greek mythology, Ipotanes were a race of half-horse, half-humans, unlike the satyrs, who were half-goat. The typical Ipotane looked ov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthesteria: Encyclopedia - Anthesteria
Anthesteria, one of the four Athenian festivals in honour of Dionysus, held annually for three days (11th-13th) in the month of Anthester...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Porphyrion: Encyclopedia - Porphyrion
In Greek mythology, Porphyrion was a giant, one of the sons of Uranus and Gaia. He attempted to rape Hera. Hera set him against Dionysus,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zagreus: Encyclopedia - Zagreus
In Greek mythology, Zagreus was identified with the god Dionysus and was worshipped by followers of Orphism. According to the followers o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Priapus: Encyclopedia - Priapus
In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god of purely phallic character, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve Olympians: Encyclopedia - Twelve Olympians
The Twelve Olympians, also known as the Dodekatheon (Greek: δωδεκα, dodeka, "twelve" + θεον, theon, "of the gods"), in Greek re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faun: Encyclopedia - Faun
In Roman mythology, fauns were place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Satyr: Encyclopedia - Satyr
In Greek mythology, Satyrs (Greek: Σάτυροι, Sáturoi) are mythological half-man and half-goat nature entities that roamed the wood...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charites: Encyclopedia - Charites
In Greek mythology, the Charites (Χάριτες; Greek: "Graces") were goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertilit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bacchus Comics: Encyclopedia - Bacchus Comics
Bacchus is a comics character created by Eddie Campbell and based upon the Roman god of wine and revelry, known to the Greeks as Dionysus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysia: Encyclopedia - Dionysia
The Dionysia was a large religious festival in ancient Athens in honour of the god Dionysus, the central event of which was the performan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Callirhoe: Encyclopedia - Callirhoe
Callirhoe or Callirrhoe may mean: Callirhoe (genus), a genus of plant within the Mallow family Callirrhoe (moon), a moon of Jupiter Cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcoholic Beverage: Encyclopedia - Alcoholic Beverage
Alcoholic beverages are drinks containing ethanol. Alcoholic beverages have been widely consumed since prehistoric times by people around...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Osiris: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Osiris
Osiris/Dionysus A manufactured name used to indicate the dying and resurrecting god-man from about 300 BC in Egypt (Osiris), Greece (D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jack In The Green: Encyclopedia Ii - Jack In The Green - Observations
In some cultures, holly represents masculinity while ivy represent femininity, as the two plants were often found together in the wild. B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osiris-dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Osiris-dionysus - Ancient Syncretism
Osiris and Dionysus had been equated as long ago as the 5th century BC by the historian Herodotus (see interpretatio graeca). By Late Ant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Christianity/jesus Pre-4th Century Christianity And Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Christianity/jesus Pre-4th Century Christianity And Syncretism - Osiris-dionysus
Platonic philosophy told of The Form of the Good, also known as "Plato's god," that could be used to explain deeper levels of dualistic t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Cult
Hera was especially worshipped, as "Argive Hera" (Hera Argeia), at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera's Jealousies
Hera - Echo. For a time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus' affairs by incessantly talking. When Hera discov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera And Children
Hera liked to eat cows. Hera presides over the right arrangements of the marriage and is the archetype of the union in the marriage bed, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Etymology And Pre-history
Unlike some Greek gods, such as Zeus and Poseidon, Hera's name is not analyzable as a Greek or Indo-European word. She therefore seems to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera The Nemesis Of Heracles
Hera was the enemy of Heracles, the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece (Ruck and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera
Hera - Cydippe. Cydippe, a priestess of Hera, was on her way to a festival in the goddess' honor. The oxen which was to pull her cart w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Bacchae: Encyclopedia Ii - The Bacchae - Characters And Setting
Characters include: Dionysus, one of the Olympian gods, son of Zeus and Semele Pentheus, the young Theban king, cousin to Dionysus Agave...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Frogs: Encyclopedia Ii - The Frogs - The Plot
The Frogs tells the story of how the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens' tragedians, travels to Hades to bring Euripides bac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Christianity/jesus Pre-4th Century Christianity And Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Christianity/jesus Pre-4th Century Christianity And Syncretism - Mithras Sol Invictus
Worship of Mithras (known as Mithraism) developed in the Roman army during the first century BC, though it is currently unknown how this ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ipotane: Encyclopedia Ii - Ipotane - Silenus
The Sileni were Ipotanes who were followers of Dionysus. These Ipotanes were drunks, and looked mainly like other Ipotanes except that th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osiris: Encyclopedia Ii - Osiris - Mystery Religion
Osiris - The passion and resurrection. Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were “gloomy, solemn, and mournfu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Midas: Encyclopedia Ii - Midas - The Myth
Once, Dionysus, the god of wine, found his old school master and foster father, Silenus, missing. The old man had been drinking, and had ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osiris: Encyclopedia Ii - Osiris - Early Mythology
Osiris - God of the dead. Osiris is first mentioned in the 4th Dynasty, though it is regarded as highly plausible that he may have evol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pseudo-dionysius The Areopagite: Encyclopedia Ii - Pseudo-dionysius The Areopagite - Identity
The Florentine humanist Lorenzo Valla (died 1457), in his commentaries on the New Testament, did much to establish that the author of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pseudo-dionysius The Areopagite: Encyclopedia Ii - Pseudo-dionysius The Areopagite - Teaching
His works are mystical and show strong neo-platonic influence. For example he uses Plotinus' well known analogy of a sculptor cutting awa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Theatre - History
Ancient Greek theatre - Origins. Early tradition holds that formal theatre in Athens evolved from festivals related to the cult of Dion...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Death Of Orpheus
According to a Late Antique summary of Aeschylus's lost play Bassarids, Orpheus at the end of his life disdained the worship of all gods ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tragedy - Origin Of Western Tragedy
The origins of tragedy in the West are obscure, but it is certainly derived from the poetic and religious traditions of ancient Greece. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anacreon Poet: Encyclopedia Ii - Anacreon Poet - Poetry
Anacreon had a reputation as a composer of hymns, as well as of those bacchanalian and amatory lyrics which are commonly associated with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dithyramb: Encyclopedia Ii - Dithyramb - Form
Dithyrambs were sung by a chorus of up to 50 men or boys dancing in circular formation (there is no certain evidence that they may have o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anthesteria: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Anthesteria
Anthesteria (Ancient Greek). The feast of Flowers (Floralia): during this festival the rite of Baptism or purification was performed i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dionysian: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Dionysian
DIONYSIAN: In religious studies, describes "lunar- or nature-oriented" religions that emphasize the ecstatic and emotional a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nonnus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nonnus - Works
Nonnus' principal work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in forty-eight books, the main subject of which is the expedition of Dionysus to India ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Jesus Mysteries: Encyclopedia Ii - The Jesus Mysteries - Criticism And Support
Critics have labeled the claims of The Jesus Mysteries far-fetched and based on insufficient research. For example, David Allan Dodson, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dionysian: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Dionysian
DIONYSIAN: In religious studies, describes "lunar- or nature-oriented" religions that emphasize the ecstatic and emotional a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Titan Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Titan Mythology - The Titans In The Twentieth Century
Some scholars of the past century or so, most eloquently Jane Ellen Harrison, have argued that an initiatory or shamanic ritual underlies...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Proteus: Encyclopedia Ii - Proteus - The Myth Of Proteus
According to Homer (Odyssey 4:412), the sandy island of Pharos situated off the coast of the Nile Delta was the home of Proteus, the orac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cygnus X-1 Series Song: Encyclopedia Ii - Cygnus X-1 Series Song - General Storyline
In the constellation of Cygnus lies a myserious black hole that is simply titled "Cygnus X-1". An explorer aboard the ship "Rocinante" is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nyx: Encyclopedia Ii - Nyx - Other Greek Texts
Night is also the first principle in the opening chorus of Aristophanes's Birds, which may be Orphic in inspiration. Here she is also the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nyx: Encyclopedia Ii - Nyx - Cults Of Night
In Greece, Night is only rarely the recipient of cult. According to Pausanias, she had an oracle on the acropolis at Megara (Paus. 1.40.1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Theatre - History
Ancient Greek theatre - Origins. The specific origins of Greek drama are obsure. Early tradition holds that drama and comedy evolved fr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sina?: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sina?
Sina? (Hebrew, Jewish). Mount Sina?, the Nissi of Exodus (xvii., ii), the birth place of almost all the solar gods of antiquity, such ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euripides: Encyclopedia Ii - Euripides - His Plays
Euripides first competed in the famous Athenian dramatic festival (the Dionysia) in 455 BCE, one year after the death of Aeschylus. He ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Cultural Aspects
The long history of human use of donkeys means that there is a rich store of cultural references to them, including: The ass was a symbo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Birth Of Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Birth Of Tragedy - The Two Aesthetic Principles
Dionysus (Dionysian): intoxication, celebration of nature, cruelty, music, dance, pain, individuality dissolved and hence destroyed, whol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysia: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysia - Rural Dionysia
The Dionysia was originally a rural festival in Attica (Dionysia ta kat' agrous), probably celebrating the cultivation of vines. It was p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thracians: Encyclopedia Ii - Thracians - Sources
The Iliad records that the Thracians from around the Hellespont and also the Thracian Cicones fought on the side of the Trojans (Iliad, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysia: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysia - Significance
Dionysus was often seen as the god of everything uncivilized, of the innate wildness of humanity that the Athenians had tried to control....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Cultural Aspects
The long history of human use of donkeys means that there is a rich store of cultural references to them, including: The ass may have be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Niš: Encyclopedia Ii - Niš - History
The city's early name under the Roman Empire remained Naissus ("city of the nymphs"). Niš is a possible location of Nysa, a mythical pla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ganymede: Encyclopedia Ii - Ganymede - Modern Sources
Rosalind, a young woman in hiding, takes on the disguise of a man and the name of Ganymede in Shakespeare's comedy, As You Like It. Ganym...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabazios: Encyclopedia Ii - Sabazios - Transformation To Sabazius
The naturally syncretic approach of Greek religion blurred distinctions. Later Greek writers, like Strabo, 1st century AD, linked Sabazio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Syncretism In Rome
The Romans, identifying themselves as common heirs to a very similar civilization, identified Greek deities with similar figures in the E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menander I: Encyclopedia Ii - Menander I - Menander's Death
Plutarch (Praec. reip. ger. 28, 6) reports that Menander died in camp while on campaign, thereby differing with the version of the Milind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor - History
The first recorded case of an actor performing took place in 534 BC (probably on 23 November, though the changes in calendar over the yea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Antony: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Antony - Antony And Cleopatra
With this military purpose on his mind, Antony sailed to Greece with his new wife, where he behaved in a most extravagant manner, assumin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christmas Tree: Encyclopedia Ii - Christmas Tree - History
The Christmas tree is often explained as a Christianization of the ancient pagan idea that the evergreen tree represents a celebration of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Cantos: Encyclopedia Ii - The Cantos - Xvii – Xxx
Originally, Pound conceived of Cantos XVII - XXVII as a group that would follow the first volume by starting with the Renaissance and end...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Age Of Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Age Of Mythology - Gods
Players can choose from one of three gods of a civilization as they begin, and two Minor Gods each time they advance in age. Each Minor G...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Iaho: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Iaho
Iaho. Though this name is more fully treated under the word"Yaho" and "Iao", a few words of explanation will not b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vine: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vine
Vine A symbol of inspiration and of spiritual fertility, both as a tree with many branches and as the producer of grapes and wine. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pederasty In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Pederasty In Ancient Greece - Religious Aspects
Myths provide more than fifty examples of young men who were the lovers of gods (Sergent). Poets and traditions ascribe Zeus, Poseidon, A...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tempter: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tempter
Tempter In general, the human mind, whether reacting to outside impulsions or impressions, or from within its own relatively small and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anthesteria: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anthesteria
Anthesteria (Greek) (from anthos flower)   Flower festival; part of the Dionysion Mysteries celebrated from the 11th to the 13th ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aeschylus: Theosophy Dictionary On Aeschylus
Aeschylus One of the three greatest Greek tragic poets, born at Eleusis (525-456 BC), the seat of the Mysteries of Demeter, into which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Midas
Once, Dionysus found his old school master and foster father, Silenus, missing. The old man had been drinking, and had wandered away drun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Childhood
The legend goes that Zeus took the infant Dionysus and gave him in charge to the rain-nymphs of Nysa, who nourished his infancy and child...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Birth
Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Birth
Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between the legends of Diony...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Modern Interpretations
In his book The Birth of Tragedy, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contrasted Dionysus with the god Apollo as a symbol of the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between Dionysus and Jesus; ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Other Stories
When Hephaestus bound Hera to a magical chair, Dionysus got him drunk and brought him back to Olympus after he had passed out. For this a...   » Read the article