greek-customsfeatured in 5 works
Dionysiac / Bacchic Rites
Ecstatic worship of Dionysus involving wine, nocturnal processions, music, and frenzied dance (the maenads), aimed at ritual possession by the god.
How it traveled
- HistoriesThurii (Magna Graecia) · -425explains
- GeographyAmaseia · 24explains
- Quaestiones ConvivalesChaeronea · 120explains
- Description of Greece— · 180explains
- DeipnosophistaeNaucratis · 230explains
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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis
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Description of Greece · Pausanias
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