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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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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 3.4.4

• Pausanias 3.24.4

• Hesiod: Theogony 945

• Homeric Hymn 1.1

• Homer: Iliad 14.325

Domain

• Apollodorus 3.5.2

• Homeric Hymn 26.1

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Aphrodite -> Priapus: Pausanias 9.31.2

• Ariadne -> Thoas, Staphylus, Oenopion, and Peparethus: Apollodorus e.1.9, Pausanias 10.29.4, Hesiod: Theogony 945

• Physcoa -> Narcaeus: Pausanias 5.16.7

Other Encounters

• Hephaistos: Pausanias 1.20.3

• Icarius: Apollodorus 3.14.8

• Oeneus: Apollodorus 1.8.2

• Pentheus: Pausanias 9.5.4, also see Bacchae below

• Sailors: Homeric Hymn 7.1, Homeric Hymn 7.32

• Triton: Pausanias 9.20.4

From Euripides' Bacchae

These are some important references to Dionysos in the Bacchae, but it would be better to read the whole play.

• Bacchae 1

• Bacchae 43

• Bacchae 290

• Bacchae 465

• Bacchae 476

• Bacchae 585

• Bacchae 650

• Bacchae 775

• Bacchae 810

• Bacchae 912

• Bacchae 945

• Bacchae 1043

Also see Dionysos images.

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