Dionysus

Semele   Birth of Dionysus from the thigh if Zeus
Bacchus
Thebes
Cadmus
Ino
Athamas
Orchomenos
Ampelus, Dionysus's first lover, the origin of wine grapes
Icarius, the first viniculturist
Erigone, his daughter
Cybele, eastern fertility goddess
King Lycurgus of Thrace and his son Dryas
Satyrs, half-human and half-goat, part of Dionysus's entourage
Silens / Silenus, humanoid creatures with horse tail and hooves
Maenads, Bacchants or Bacchae, female followers of Dionysus
Tyrrhenian pirates
Midas
Phrygia
Ariadne
Naxos
 
kantharos
enthousiasmos
ekstasis
thyrsus
timbrel
dithyramb
choryphaeus
sparagmos - omophagia
Agrionia
Great (City) Dionysia Theatre of Dionysus, Athens
satyr play
Tragedy = "tragos" (goat) + "oide" (song)
catharsis
comedy = "komos" (parade of revelers) + "oide"
hubris
orchestra, skene, proskenion, parados, diazoma
Epidaurus
 
Thespis, the first Greek tragic dramatist (about 534 B.C.)
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Euripides (c. 485-406 B.C.), Bacchae
Peisistratos
Exekias Black Figure Kylix with images from Homeric Hymn

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