Dionysus - Greek God of Wine and Festivity Statue

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Daskyleion was reportedly named after Lydian King Dascylus, father of the better-known Gyges. Established around the time of the Trojan War, the city eventually came under control of the Phrygians, Lydians, Persians and Macedonians, according to Livius.

Reinach, Salomon. 1916. "Clarac de poche: contenant les bas-reliefs de l'ancien fonds du Louvre et les statues antiques du Musée de sculpture de Clarac." Répertoire de la Statuaire Greque et Romaine, Vol. 1, 2nd edn. p. 391, I, Paris: E. Leroux. Howard Kathleen. 1994. Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide: Works of Art Selected by Philippe De Montebello. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.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. Jenkins, Ian. 2008. "The Past as a Foreign Country: Thomas Hope's Collection of Antiquities." Thomas Hope: Regency Designer, David Watkin and Philip Hewat-Jaboor, eds. p. 113, figs. 7–9, New York: Wurtzburger Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art. We can see that, from antiquity, traders have had a reputation for telling lies to sell their merchandise, even when there was nothing wrong with their merchandise. In Mythology practice is said to have moved to Athens after Eleutherae chose to become part of Attica. They then brought a statue of Dionysus to Athens, which the Athenians promptly rejected. Dionysus then punished the Athenians with a Plague affecting the genitalia of men. The plague was alleviated after the cult was accepted by the Athenians, who recorded the incident through carrying phalloi during the procession. Ritual Activity

There isn't much evidence that tells us around when Dionysus' cult was introduced to Athens. However, the sanctuary of Dionysus, in which the famous theatre is located contains the remains of two temples. The first of these two is dated to around the 6th century BC, whilst the second of which is dated to around 350 BC. [1] Bromios Βρόμιος ("roaring", as of the wind, primarily relating to the central death/resurrection element of the myth, [48] but also the god's transformations into lion and bull, [49] and the boisterousness of those who drink alcohol. Also cognate with the "roar of thunder", which refers to Dionysus' father, Zeus "the thunderer". [50]) The myth of the birth of Athena, reported to compose the East pediment by Pausanias, is repeated also in the East pediment of the contemporary Attic temple nearby of the Hephaisteion. [38] [39] Plato, 'Symposium.' Plato In Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9. trans. H. N. Fowler (Cambridge: Harvard Uniersity Press) Ramage, Nancy H. 1999. "The Pacetti Papers and the Restoration of Ancient Sculpture in the 18th Century." Von der Schönheit weissen Marmors: Zum 200. Todestag Bartolomeo Cavaceppis, Vol. 2, Thomas Weiss, ed. pp. 81–82, fig. 54, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.

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Indoletes, Ἰνδολέτης, meaning slayer/killer of Indians. Due to his campaign against the Indians. [64] The Conquest of India by Dionysus at the archaeological museum of Sétif, c. 200–300 AD Picón, Carlos A., Elizabeth J. Milleker, and Joan R. Mertens. 1991. "Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1990–1991." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49(2): pp. 10–11. The two pediments included about fifty statues. Only one, identified as Dionysus on the east side, kept his head. All others have disappeared or been dispersed across Europe. [9] The statues are preserved in the British Museum, the Acropolis Museum in Athens and the Louvre Museum (Weber-Laborde head). [40] Archaeologists in western Turkey have uncovered an almost perfectly preserved terracotta mask depicting Dionysus, the Greco-Roman god of wine and ecstasy, reports Ahmet Pesen for the state-run Anadolu Agency. The west group B and C is very damaged because it remained on the Parthenon until 1977, as was the western female figure W. The western group B and C (probably Cecrops and Pandrose) was not swept away by the agents of Lord Elgin at the beginning of the nineteenth century because they believed that it was a repair of the first centuries of our era that had replaced the original group by a statue tribute to the emperor Hadrian and his wife Sabine. This erroneous assumption was made at the end of the seventeenth century in Jacob Spon's (1678) and George Wheler (1682). [13] [24] [48] travel narratives. The head of the horse of Helios' chariot, east C, was removed from the Parthenon in 1988. [49] Conservation [ edit ]