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"Chorus of Bakkhai: From the land of Asia, having left sacred Tmolos, I am swift to perform for Bromios . . . celebrating the god #Bakkhos . . . Blessed is he who, being fortunate and knowing the rites of the gods."
#Euripides, Bacchae 70
๐ #Dionysos, Maenad, and Satyrs, red-figured nestoris wine jar, 380-360 BCE
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"[#Silenos] great nurse of #Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiads and Bacchae who bear ivy, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenos
๐ Roman marble sarcophagus depicting the birth of #Dionysos, possibly for a child, dated 150-160 CE
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"Let us be merry and drink wine and sing of #Bakkhos [Dionysos], the inventor of the choral dance, the lover of all songs."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 38
๐ One of my favourite depicions of #Dionysos, who is seated on his throne rather casually, Temple of Dionysos, #Delos
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""[The Argive river] Inakhos was witness to both, when the heavy bronze pikes of Mykenes resisted the ivy and deadly fennel, when #Perseus sickle in hand gave way to #Bakkhos with his wand, and fled before the fury of Satyrs cyring Euoi."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 25 104
๐ #Dionysos and a satyr, possibly his lover Ampelos
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