His killers were women devotees of the old, displaced cult of Dionysus, who tore him apart. |
The creature sails with Dionysus and leaps against the Tyrrhenians without waiting for his bidding. |
His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus. |
It was also drunken frenzy which suggested to Nietzsche the ecstatic abandonment and orgiastic revelry of the ancient cult of Dionysus. |
In Greek legend the evergreen pine tree is sacred to the goat god Dionysus, and the pine cone, a phallic symbol of eternity, immortality and rebirth. |
Of the greatest gift of Dionysus I hardly like to speak, lest I should be misunderstood. |