But in spirit these orderly scenes barely nod to the bacchic mayhem that propelled the Jazz Age towards the Wall Street Crash. |
Aristotle calls the flute orgiastic because it contributes to religious insanity but often refers to drums in bacchic, corybantic or similar ecstatic worship. |
Muster your teams and customers around a simple bacchic activity. |
Georges Faiveley and his friend Camille Rodier founded the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, the renaissance of an old bacchic brotherhood from the Middle Ages. |
Some vessels and jewellery are adorned with traditional pagan motifs, such as hunting and Bacchic scenes, or Hercules wrestling the giant Antaeus. |
The Orphic literature influenced many Bacchic mystery groups in antiquity. |