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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

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
    explains
  2. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  3. Quaestiones Convivales
    Chaeronea · 120
    explains
  4. Description of Greece
    · 180
    explains
  5. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Quaestiones Convivales · Plutarch

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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