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"Bacchus himself, grape-bunches garlanding his brow, brandished a spear that vine-leaves twined, and at his feet fierce spotted panthers lay, tigers and lynxes too, in phantom forms."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.664
🏛 Dionysos with a Panther, 2nd century …

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"[Silenus] great nurse of Bakkhos [. . .] surrounded by the nurses young and fair, Naiades and Bacchae who ivy bear, with all your Satyrs."
Orphic Hymn 54 to #Silenus
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"He rent rams, skins and all, and clove them piecemeal and cast the dead bodies on the ground; and again with his hands he neatly put their limbs together, and immediately they were alive and browsed on the green pasture."
Oppian, Cynegetica 4.230
🏛 Dionysos bust decorating a fulcrum, 2nd century BCE Greece…

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"He was accompanied [. . .] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Silenus, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3
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"Goatherd Pan cried out: ‘I wish my father had taught me the trick of that matchmaking wine! I wish I could be lord of the mindtripping grape, like Bakkhos [Dionysos]!’"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16.289
🏛 Dionysos and Pan, 50-150 CE

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"After Dionysos had demonstrated to the Thebans that he was a god, he went to Argos where again he drove the women mad when the people did not pay him honour, and up in the mountains the women fed on the flesh of the babies suckling at their breasts."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.37
🏛 Dionysos Mosaic, …

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"The Egyptians say that Demeter [Isis] and Dionysos [Osiris] are the rulers of the lower world. The Egyptians were the first who maintained the following doctrine, too, that the human soul is immortal, and at the death of the body enters into some other living thing then coming to birth"
Herodotus, Histories 2.12…

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"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43
🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy