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Dionysos is the god of wine, intoxication, and creative ecstasy. He is also known as Dionysus, Bacchus or Bakchos, and Liber (Roman). His attributes in iconography include a drinking vessel, an ivy wreath, grape vines, and the thyrsos (a long fennel stalk topped with ivy leaves).

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Images

Ancient Sources

• Return of Hephaistos to Olympos: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Dionysos between eyes: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Dionysos, Athene, and Hermes: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Assembly of gods: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Hermes, Dionysos, and goddess: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Dionysos and Ariadne: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Dionysos in donkey cart: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Dionysos and Hephaistos: Image
  Caeretan Hydria, ca 550 BC, MM

• Dionysos on a ship: Image
  Exekias, ca 540 BC, MM

• Dionysos persuing Ariadne: Overview, Detail
  Info, Late Archaic

• Dionysos: Overview, Detail
  Info, Late Archaic

• Dinoysos, Satyrs, and Maenads: Overview, Detail
  Info, Late Archaic

• Athene, Theseus, Dionysos and Ariadne: Image
  Syleus Painter, ca 470 BC, MM

• Birth of Dionysos: Image
  Alkimachos Painter, ca 460 BC, MM

• Dionysos and Maenad: Overview, Detail
  Info, Early Classical

• Hermes delivers the infant Dionysos to Papposilenos and nymph: Large image, 50% image
  Phiale Painter, ca 430 BC, MM

• Dionysos seated: Overview, Detail
  Info, Classical

• Coin: Obverse
  Info, Classical

• Hermes and the infant Dionysos: Image
  Praxiteles: temple of Hera, Olympia, ca 330 BC, US

• Coin: Obverse
  Info, Late Classical

• Silenus with the Infant Dionysus: Large image, 50% image
  Roman copy after a statue attributed to Lysippos, original ca 310-300 BC, AS

• Dionysos: Large image, 50% image
  Great Altar of Zeus in Pergamon, ca 180-175 BC, AS

• Head of Dionysos: Large image, 50% image
  Roman mosaic, 1st century AD, MM

• Birth of Dionysos: Large image, 50% image
  Pompeiian wall painting, 1st century AD, MM

• Dionysos and Herakles: Image
  Antioch (Roman) mosaic, ca 50-115 AD, MM

• Dionysos: Image
  Roman relief, 2nd century AD, MM

• Dionysus attended by the Four Seasons, Tellus, and Oceanus: Image
  Roman Sarcophagus relief, ca 220-230 AD, AS

• Drinking contest between Dionysos and Herakles: Image
  Antioch (Roman) mosaic, ca 250-300 AD, MM

• Dionysos and Ariadne: Image
  Roman sarcophagus, 4th century AD, MM

Later Representations in Art

• Bacchus: Large image, 50% image
  Michelangelo, Buonarroti, 1497, MM

• Bacchus and Ariadne: Large image, 50% image
  Titian, 1520-23, MM

• Bacchus and Ariadne: Large image, 50% image
  Bertin, Nicolas, c 1710-15, MM

Also see Dionysos texts.

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