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    Dionysus, called Narcissus (Italian: Dioniso, così detto Narciso) is a bronze ancient Roman statuette, created between the 1st century BC. and 1st century...
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    The Menologium Rusticum Colotianum, an ancient Roman almanac Dionysus, called Narcissus List of largest art museums John Walsh and Debra Gribbon, The...
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    Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. They were called Olympians because, according to tradition, they resided on Mount...
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    daughter). The so-called great Orphic tablet of Thurii refers to the abduction of Persephone by Zeus, who then fathers her son, Dionysus. Their child was...
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    her heart to call out to Narcissus, Juno's curse prevented her. During the hunt, Narcissus became separated from his companions and called out, "is anyone...
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    Eurydice from the underworld, and his death at the hands of the maenads of Dionysus, who got tired of his mourning for his late wife Eurydice. As an archetype...
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    Nemesis (section Narcissus)
    Nemesis then contacted Eros, the god of love, and he struck Dionysus with one of his arrows. Dionysus fell madly in love with Aura, and when she rebuffed his...
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  • and Dionysus Cleostratus and Menestratus Cycnus and Phaethon Cycnus and Phylius Cydon and Clytius Deiphobus and Antheus Dionysus and Ampelus Dionysus and...
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    Nysa (mythology) (category Mythology of Dionysus)
    rain nymphs, the Hyades, raised the infant god Dionysus, the "God of Nysa." Though the worship of Dionysus is sometimes presumed to have arrived in Mycenaean...
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    Thyrsus (category Dionysus)
    is called "a spear enveloped in vine-leaves", and its point was thought to incite to madness. The thyrsus, associated with the followers of Dionysus (the...
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  • First Appearance: Narcissus in Chains. A werehyena with dark, curly hair and eyes of a strange shade of gold. Lover of Dionysus. Bacchus was shot and...
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    the writer of apocryphal works in which he described exploits of the god Dionysus and other mythical legends. With these, he was among other mythical authors...
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    the Greek myths involving male youths (ephebes), noting the legends of Narcissus and Hyacinth, who had archaic hero-cults, and also those involving Hymen...
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    forests; springs. Other nymphs were part of the retinue of a god (such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan) or of a goddess (generally the huntress Artemis). The...
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    the universe out of which burst the first-born deity Phanes, or Phanes-Dionysus. Phanes was a male god; in an original Orphic hymn he is named as "Lord...
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    village of Crete with a church in honor of Saint Dionysios Areopagitis. St. Dionysus Institute in Paris Early centers of Christianity#Greece Cathedral Basilica...
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    their way back, looking for water. Theseus then abandoned Ariadne, where Dionysus eventually found and married her. On his way back from Crete, he also stopped...
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    syncretic Hellenistic era, Pan is identified with Phanes/Protogonos, Zeus, Dionysus and Eros. Aegocerus (Ancient Greek: Αἰγόκερως, romanized: Aigókerōs, lit...
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    Aristophanes' The Frogs, in which Dionysus seeks out the hero to find a way to the underworld. Heracles is greatly amused by Dionysus' appearance and jokingly...
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    Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus—although philosophies such as Stoicism and some forms of Platonism used...
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    spring burst from the spot. On Mount Helicon too was the spring where Narcissus was inspired by his own beauty. Mount Helicon and the Hippocrene spring...
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    the goddess of wisdom and courage.: 20ff  Some gods, such as Apollo and Dionysus, revealed complex personalities and mixtures of functions, while others...
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  • Soteria (mythology) (category Children of Dionysus)
    Soteria's male counterpart was the spirit or daimon Soter. Both Zeus and Dionysus were titled Soter, so either may have been her father; her mother is unknown...
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    with one panel grouping Dionysus, Persephone, the nymphs and Pluto. Pluto holds a key because "they say that what is called Hades has been locked up...
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  • Aura, another parthenos and huntress noted for running was pursued by Dionysus. Aura outruns the god, but later, drinking water that he has changed into...
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  • Flood that ended the Bronze Age. Dionysus: son of Zeus and Semele, born a mortal, later became the god of wine. Also called Bacchus by the Romans. Epaphus:...
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    current king Pentheus against denouncing Dionysus as a god. Along with Cadmus, he dresses as a worshiper of Dionysus to go up the mountain to honor the new...
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    Endymion as the parents of the beautiful Narcissus, although in other accounts, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Narcissus was the son of Cephissus and Liriope...
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    to the fields. In Euripides' The Bacchae, Cadmus is given a prophecy by Dionysus whereby both he and his wife will be turned into snakes for a period before...
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  • helps her to run faster. Dionysus is the god boy of wine. Dionysus appears in the eighth book Medusa the Mean. Medusa is Dionysus's crush and they start to...
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