Hereupon the god showed himself to them in his own majesty: Vines began to twine round the vessel, and Bacchus stood crowned with grapes, holding his thyrsus ( a staff with a pine cone on top, wrapped with vines and ivy leaves ) and surrounded by panthers and tigers.

" In a rage, Pentheus ran to deal with Bacchus himself.

Bacchus himself was not the problem ; like any deity, he had a right to cult.

Ochus Bochus is himself quite possibly a corruption of Bacchus, god of conjuration who turned water into sacred wine.

Bacchus himself was murdered on 24 June 2004, leading to speculation and allegations about a cover-up.

Bacchus appears in a vision to a Muslim priest in Samorin's court and convinces him that the explorers are a threat.

The god Pan also appears in the composition, dancing and brandishing his pan-pipes, as do several dancing Maenads, the female devotees of Bacchus, and satyrs.

Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, 3. 5 ) and Varro ( cited by Pliny ), speculated that the name Lusitania was of Roman origin, as when Pliny says lusum enim liberi patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse lusitaniae et pana praefectum eius universae: that Lusitania takes its name from the lusus associated with Bacchus and the lyssa of his Bacchantes, and that Pan is its governor.

*" Ah, by Bacchus, with this aria I shall receive universal applause.

Cheetahs were often associated with the god Dionysus, whom the Romans called Bacchus.

Silenus is a character, along with Bacchus, in the C. S.

A black centaurette called Sunflower was depicted polishing the hooves of a white centaurette, and a second named Otika appeared briefly during the procession scenes with Bacchus and his followers.

Acoetes alone was saved and continued on his journey with Bacchus, returning to Naxos, where he was initiated in the Bacchic mysteries and became a priest of the god.

After listening to Acoetes tale of being on the ship with Bacchus, Pentheus ordered him jailed and tortured.

Hyginus, whose story on the whole agrees with that of Ovid, and all the other writers who mention this adventure of Bacchus, call the crew of the ship Tyrrhenian pirates and derive the name of the Tyrrhenian Sea from them.

Cultic rites associated with worship of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus ( or Bacchus in Roman mythology ), were allegedly characterized by maniacal dancing to the sound of loud music and crashing cymbals, in which the revellers, called Bacchantes, whirled, screamed, became drunk and incited one another to greater and greater ecstasy.

The goal was to achieve a state of enthusiasm in which the celebrants ’ souls were temporarily freed from their earthly bodies and were able to commune with Bacchus / Dionysus and gain a glimpse of and a preparation for what they would someday experience in eternity.

Maenads, along with Bacchus and Silenus, appear in C. S.

His cult and functions were increasingly associated with Bacchus and his Greek equivalent Dionysus, whose mythologies he came to share.

Liber was closely, often interchangeably identified with Bacchus, Dionysius and their mythology but was not entirely subsumed by them ; in the late Republican era, Cicero could insist on the " non-identity of Liber and Dionysus " and describe Liber and Libera as children of Ceres.

The thyrsus, associated with Dionysus ( or Bacchus ) and his followers, the Satyrs and Maenads, is a symbol of prosperity, fertility, hedonism, and pleasure / enjoyment in general.

He it was that / drove the nursing women who were in charge / of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa ,/ and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as / murderous Lycurgus beat them with his ox -/ goad.

* Saint Bacchus, along with Saint Sergius, third century Roman soldiers commemorated as Christian martyrs

As a god of pure water, Fons can be placed in opposition to Liber as a god of wine identified with Bacchus.

** Vol 3: Doing the Islands with Bacchus ( 1997 )

** Vol 9: King Bacchus ( with Pete Mullins, 1996 )

In the " Flemish Deck " by Vandenborre ( c. 1750-1760 ), the High Priest is replaced with Bacus ( Bacchus ).

at Arcueil when a goat garlanded with flowers was led in procession and presented to the author — a ceremony exaggerated by the enemies of the Ronsardists into a renewal of the pagan rites of the worship of Bacchus.

One of its panels showed the Roman god Bacchus riding a panther.

The overmantel plaque of Bacchus and Ariadne riding on a panther was modelled on famous antique cameos illustrated in Pierres Antiques Gravées, published 1724 by Philip, Baron von Stosch and Bernard Picart.

Sileni is the plural ( Latin ) form of Silenus, a creature often related to the Roman wine god, Bacchus, thus represented in pictorial art as inebriated, merry revellers, who are mounted on donkeys, singing, dancing, playing flutes etc.

The figures accompanying Flora would most likely be Ceres, goddess of agriculture, and Silenus, instructor and advisor to Bacchus.

There are also many singular beings who frequent or inhabit Narnia and its surrounding countries including: the River god, Bacchus, Father Christmas, Father Time, Pomona, Silenus, and Tash.

Whilst he was thus deeply engaged at a tavern, he was called on by a grenadier, who desired his immediate attendance on his colonel ; but no entreaties could prevail on the disciple of Aesculapius to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus.

A relief of Dionysus Bacchus at the Corfu Museum.

There is even a festival, held every third year in honour of Bacchus, at which the natives fall into the Bacchic fury.

I 1804 he finished Dance of the Muses at Helicon and a group statue of Amor and Psyche and other important early works such as Apollo, Bacchus og Ganymedes.

A gathering for a festival to honor Bacchus, the god of wine, is interrupted by Zeus who creates a storm and throws lightning bolts at the attendees.

Introduced to Australasia, the tree was listed by nurseries in Australia in the early 20th century, and is known to have been planted along the Avenue of Honour at Ballarat and the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour.

In the fourth book the Argive forces gather, commanded by the seven champions Adrastus, Polyneices, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Parthenopaeus, Hippomedon, and Tydeus and march to Thebes, but at Nemea, Bacchus causes a drought.

* Temple of Bacchus, a Roman temple at a large classical antiquity complex in Baalbek, Lebanon

The Hercules Powder Co., once a small dynamite manufacturing firm, had begun producing rocket motors at its Bacchus Works south of the Magna community, named after 1912 founder T. W.

Unlike the National Gallery's ' Associate Artist Scheme ', however, Auerbach's work after historic artists was not the result of a short residency at the National Gallery, it has a long history, and in this exhibition he showed paintings made after Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne, from the 1970s to Rubens's Samson and Delilah made in 1993.

Among the poems written or at least sketched during this period were L ' Oaristys, L ' Aveugle, La Jeune Malode, Bacchus, Euphrosine and La Jeune Tarentine.

The manuscript tradition of Plutarch's Life of Lysander offers a unique report of a spring Kiffousa at Haliartos, in which the infant Bacchus was washed: this must be a scribal error for Tilfousa.

Coach services run from a terminal at the railway station and include Bacchus Marsh Coaches operates school bus services in Melton with connections to Rockbank, Toolern Vale, Bacchus Marsh and Sunbury.

Some VLocity Ballarat services, Ararat services, Maryborough services as well as most N class and P class Bacchus Marsh services stop at Melton on route to and from Southern Cross Station.

The same year he exhibited a marble statue at the Salon of 1878, based on his early painting Anacreon, Bacchus and Cupid ( 1848 ).

In 1626, the Sacchetti family engaged Cortona to paint three large canvases of The Sacrifice of Polyxena, The Triumph of Bacchus, and The Rape of the Sabines ( the latter, c. 1629 ), and to paint a series of frescoes in the Villa Sacchetti at Castelfusano, near Ostia, using a team that included the young Andrea Sacchi.

The administrative centre is at Ballan, while the largest urban centre is Bacchus Marsh.

While he was at Yale University, he was a member of the Society of Orpheus & Bacchus, an undergraduate a cappella singing group.

The Apollo, Venus-and Mars-crosser asteroid 2063 Bacchus ( ) was discovered on April 24, 1977, by Charles T. Kowal at the Palomar Observatory.

As pointed out by archaeological explorers of Lydia, Artimu ( Artemis ) and Pldans ( Apollo ) have strong Anatolian components and Cybele-Rhea, the Mother of Gods, and Baki ( Bacchus, Dionysos ) went from Anatolia to Greece, while both in Lydia and Caria, Levs ( Zeus ) preserved strong local characteristics all at the same sharing the name of its Greek equivalent.

Ribera del Duero wine making extends back over 2, 000 years, as evidenced by the 66-metre mosaic of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, that was unearthed in 1972, at Baños de Valdearados.