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There were Dionysia in Greece and Bacchic festivals in Rome and, allegedly, in more rural areas, traces of the Greek ones survive to this day.
As in Roman art in general, Bacchic scenes and imagery are very common in these mosaics.
The Orphic literature influenced many Bacchic mystery groups in antiquity.
Some vessels and jewellery are adorned with traditional pagan motifs, such as hunting and Bacchic scenes, or Hercules wrestling the giant Antaeus.
Since Bacchic rituals involve the direct possession of the initiates with the spirit of Dionysus himself, their actions are representative of the nature of Dionysus.
She became a popular member of the community, respected for her dedication and kindness, and her tolerance of the more Bacchic aspects of island life.
The exceptional attentiveness of its staff and the renowned, almost Bacchic temptations of its dining room are easily enough to satisfy the most demanding of tastes.
The decree did not aim to eliminate Bacchic worship but to bring it under the supervision of senatorial authorities.
The goliards borrowed their tunes from the liturgy and specialized in Bacchic, anticlerical love songs.
On first impression, it's hard to imagine him as a master of Bacchic ceremony.
Wherever a holy one of these Sibyls abided, it was sure that also a Delphic, Bacchic, Kabiric, Dactylic or Eleusinian Mystery existed.
Dionysiac Mysteries were introduced on an even greater scale, so that the royal court was temporarily thrown into turmoil by the number of Bacchic ceremonies in which the king was considered to be a reincarnation of Dionysus.
Hundreds of inscriptions attest to Bacchic Mysteries.
The Bacchic cry of Euoi is not too dissimilar to Jesus' penultimate cry, while on the cross, of Eloi, Eloi.
But in spirit these orderly scenes barely nod to the bacchic mayhem that propelled the Jazz Age towards the Wall Street Crash.
Aristotle calls the flute orgiastic because it contributes to religious insanity but often refers to drums in bacchic, corybantic or similar ecstatic worship.
Examples from Classical Literature
One of the most precious of the treasures was the Bacchic cantharus, called the Cup of the Ptolomies.
Using the metaphor of frenzied religious festival celebration, Socrates compares the poets to Corybantic dancers and Bacchic revelers.
Between the heads are thyrsi or Bacchic rods entwined with ivy and vine shoots, and litui or augural wands used in taking omens.
It was not the arrangements of the beersellers, which were formidably Bacchic.
But Orphism, though liable to degradation, purified and elevated the old Bacchic rites.
A staff entwined with ivy and vines, and borne in the Bacchic processions.
This apartment has also six medallions with heads of Bacchic personages.
I thought that Bacchic energy of yours was long since repressed.
The Barfields experimented with wine-making in 1930, which inspired them, Lewis, and Cecil Harwood to make preliminary plans for a Bacchic festival.
No Bacchic revels on Mount Parnassus were ever more corybantic.
The subject of this sculpture seems to be a Bacchic procession.
It ran in the direction of Orphic and Bacchic Thrace to the north.
Set on the eve of the Battle of Actium, the poem dramatizes Antony's and Cleopatra's Bacchic outburst preceding their ultimate doom.
In two seconds the ladies had entered into our Bacchic plot.
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