However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

As a result of this Dionysus " was also called Dimetor two mothers ... because the two Dionysoi were born of one father, but of two mothers "

Pentheus begins to see double, perceiving two Thebes and two bulls ( Dionysus often took the form of a bull ) leading him.

There are two versions of his death and Dionysus ’ s reaction to it.

The statue of Dionysus was originally flanked by those of two actors impersonating Paposilenoi ( conserved in the Archaeological Museum of Delos ).

This double sex also attributed to Dionysus and Priapus-the union in one being of the two principles of generation and conception-denotes extensive fertilizing and productive powers.

A chance discovery in Moscow in 1777, recovered the two hymns that open the collection, the fragmentary To Dionysus and To Demeter ( complete save some lacunose lines ), in a single fifteenth century manuscript.

The most renowned work of Andokides is the amphora depicting the god Dionysus and two of his maenads.

Recovered were a marble bust probably of Ariadne, two large-scale bronzes, a herm figure of a turbaned Dionysus, inscribed with the name of its maker, Boëthos of Chalcedon, and a lithe, winged olive-wreathed boy, identified by scholars as Agon or Eros Enagonios, Eros as lord of contests, a bronze bust of Ariadne, and two bronze statuettes of dancing dwarfs.

Dionysus and two maenads, one holding a hare, neck amphora, ca.

On the risalit front, Dionysus, accompanied by two young satyrs joins the struggle.

There are two churches, St. Lawrence in Fahretoft, built in 1703 and St. Dionysus in Dagebüll.

There are two Orphic stories of the rebirth of Dionysus, in one of which it is the heart of Dionysus that is implanted into the thigh of Zeus ; the other where he has impregnated the mortal woman Semele resulting in Dionysus's literal rebirth.

The Kabalas went on to release two more CDs on Dionysus, The Eye of Zohar in 1997 and Time Tunnel in 1999.

Cephisodotus also made, as did his son, a figure of Hermes carrying the child Dionysus, unless indeed ancient critics have made two works of one.

Assuming the Dionysus cult arrived in Greece with the importation of wine, it probably first emerged about 6000 BC in one of two places — the Zagros Mountains and borderlands of Mesopotamia and Persia ( with a rich wine culture via Asia Minor ), or from wild vines on the mountain slopes of Libya and other regions in North Africa.

According to Athenian sources, when the Dionysus cult was state-controlled a high priest ( hierophant ) and a high priestess ( referred to in Rome as the matrona, with two assistant priestesses ) were appointed as overseers.

** Maenads or Bacchai or Bacchantes-frenzied nymphs in the retinue of Dionysus

It is not known whether the Oracle participated with the Dionysian rites of the Maenads or Thyades in the Korykion cave on Mount Parnassos, although Plutarch informs us that his friend Clea was both a Priestess to Apollo and to the secret rites of Dionysus.

* Maenads, female worshippers of Dionysus

The wild ecstasy of their cult can be compared to the female Maenads who followed Dionysus.

Maenads, possessed by the spirit of Dionysus, traveled with him from Thrace to mainland Greece in his quest for the recognition of his divinity.

Whilst looking for the automaton table, Buford, Leo, Jason, and Piper run into the Maenads, who were searching for Dionysus.

In Euripides's play, " The Bacchae ", Theban Maenads murdered King Pentheus after he banned the worship of Dionysus because he denied Dionysus's divinity.

Dionysus, Pentheus's cousin, himself lured Pentheus to the woods, Pentheus wanting to see what he thought were the sexual activities of the women, where the Maenads tore him apart and his corpse was mutilated by his own mother, Agave.

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.

Resisting the arrival of the god, Lycurgus had pursued all of Dionysus ' followers, the Maenads, with an ox-goad and imprisoned them ; Dionysus was forced to flee to the undersea grotto of Thetis the sea nymph.

* Parnassus: A mountain associated with the cult of Dionysus ( as practised by the Maenads ) overlooking Delphi, one of the most sacred sites in ancient Greece.

In the temple to Apollo at Delphi, there was also a shrine to Dionysus, and his Maenads are shown on drinking cups playing the aulos, but Dionysus is sometimes shown holding a kithara or lyre.

Applied by the Greeks to manifestations of divine possession, by Apollo ( as in the case of the Pythia ), or by Dionysus ( as in the case of the Bacchantes and Maenads ), the term enthusiasm was also used in a transferred or figurative sense.

When Lycurgus heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned Dionysus's followers, the Maenads, or drove them and Dionysus out of Thrace with an ox-goad.

The original Mysteries of Dionysus seem to have had no hierarchy at all ; only ritual functionaries ( such as the Phallophoroi ) are mentioned, the rest being participant Bacchoi, Thyiades or Maenads.

Usually he will paint Dionysus with his Maenads or Hephaistion.

Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus.

Dionysus and the Maenads were usually painted on Kraters by the Kleophon Painter.

Thyia in the Delphic tradition was an eponym naiad of the Thyiades, alternative name of the Maenads in the cult of Dionysus, certainly practiced also in Macedonia.

When Orpheus incurred the wrath of the god Dionysus he was dismembered by the Maenads and of his body parts his head and his lyre found their way to Lesbos where they have " remained " ever since.

On this sarcophagus, the birth of the god Dionysus is depicted.

In Greek vase painting, the frolicking of maenads and Dionysus is often a theme depicted on Greek kraters, used to mix water and wine.

In another myth, when his mother, Semele, is killed, the care of young Dionysus falls into the hands of her sisters, Ino, Agave, and Autonoe, who later are depicted as participating in the rites and taking a leadership role among the other maenads.

In classical antiquity wine production was linked with the cult of Dionysus, while grapes were also depicted in the local currency.

Gods are seldom depicted, Dionysus never.

A bronze hoop was one of the toys of the infant Dionysus, and hoop driving is an attribute of Ganymede, often depicted on Greek vase paintings from the fifth c. BCE.

The mosaic which adorned the villa's gallery depicted the marriage of Dionysus, god of wine and grapes, to Ariadne.

* In the Mythic Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted by Dionysus.