Dionysus - Greek God of Wine and Festivity Statue

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Speaking with the Daily Star’s Michael Moran, Iren says the city was extremely multicultural. Many different groups lived there together in peace. Bacchus was the Roman god of wine, fertility, and pleasure. He was known as Dionysus in Greece. This sculpture depicts him as a young man wearing a diadem (jeweled headband) and an ivy wreath crown. The young god holds a bunch of grapes over his head in his right hand and a drinking cup in his left hand. The grapes and the cup are objects that are associated with wine. Dionysus and the Maenads, amphora by the Amasis Painter, c. 530 bce; in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris. (more)

Mastromarco, Giuseppe: (1994) Introduzione a Aristofane (Sesta edizione: Roma-Bari 2004). ISBN 88-420-4448-2 p.3 Liknites ("he of the winnowing fan"), as a fertility god connected with mystery religions. A winnowing fan was used to separate the chaff from the grain. Lysius, Λύσιος ("delivering, releasing"). At Thebes there was a temple of Dionysus Lysius. [70] [71] [72] There, a 35-foot-long (10.7-meter-long) marble statue of Dionysus waits in stillness, just as it has for thousands of years. The enormous, unfinished depiction of the god of wine weighs more than 88 tons (80 metric tons) and dates from between the seventh and sixth centuries BC.

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The Resting Satyr, Roman copy of another work attributed to Praxiteles, Capitoline Museums Papposilenus bearing the infant Dionysos, variant on the Olympia Hermes, c. 350-300 BC, Musée du Louvre Popular culture [ edit ]Pausanias, a Greek geographer, described their subjects: to the east, the birth of Athena, and to the west the quarrel between her and Poseidon to become the tutelary deity of Athens. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2020. ART = Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History. p. 073, New York: Phaidon Press. in German) Georg Treu, Hermes mit dem Dionysosknaben: ein Originalwerk des Praxiteles gefunden im Heraion zu Olympia, Wasmuth, Berlin, 1878.

During the fifth century BC, five days of the festival were set aside for performance, though scholars disagree exactly what was presented each day. At least three full days were devoted to tragic plays, and each of three playwrights presented his set of three tragedies and one satyr play on the successive days. [5] Most of the extant Greek tragedies, including those of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, were performed at the Theatre of Dionysus. The archons, epimeletai, and judges ( agonothetai – ἀγωνοθἐται) watched from the front row. Nysian Nύσιος, according to Philostratus, he was called like this by the ancient Indians. [77] Most probably, because according to legend he founded the city of Nysa. [78] [79] [80] The other two days of the festival were likely devoted to dithyrambic contests until 487/6BC, when comic poets were officially admitted to the agons and eligible for their own prizes. [6] Each of five comic writers presented a single play (except during the Peloponnesian War, when only three plays were performed), though it is unknown whether they were performed continuously on one day, or over the course of the five-day festival. Until 449BC, only dramatic works were awarded prizes in the agon, but after that time, actors also became eligible for recognition. It was considered a great honour to win the comedic prize at the City Dionysia, despite the belief that comedies were of secondary importance. The Lenaia festival, held earlier in the year, featured comedy more prominently and officially recognized comic performances with prizes in 442 BC. [5]

Antinous as Dionysus

Boardman, John (1985). Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period a handbook. London: Thames and Hudson.