deity

Dionysus

Beings

The named Greek god of wine, frenzy, and theater. Not Bacchus as a Latin twin under one id, and not wine as a bare drink.

Also known as Dionysos

Hellenic religion

  • Dionysus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus seats Dionysus among Greek cult and Egyptian interpretatio speech without collapsing the Greek god into Osiris in this attestation row. A named dionysus in that traveler’s speech, not Bacchus as a Roman flatten and not dionysus-osiris as the separate historically_related_to claim.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Ivy is historically related to Dionysus.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris pairs Osiris’s ivy with Dionysus’s familiar ivy so Greek readers hear the interpretatio — a named ivy–Dionysus keep-together under this source, not a second sacred_to and not a courtesy reverse.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

    historically related to · sourced · culturally specific

Egyptian religion

  • Dionysus is historically related to Osiris.

    Herodotus explicitly identifies Egyptian Osiris with Greek Dionysus in the Egyptian logos — an interpretatio claim, not a merger of two gods into one entity. A named historically_related_to meeting in that traveler’s speech, not appears_in attestation alone and not an identity flatten.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    historically related to · sourced · documented

  • Dionysus appears in Egyptian religion.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats Dionysus inside Egyptian cult speech by interpretatio with Osiris — Dionysus named in Egyptian religion as that Greek treatise hears it. A named Dionysus presence in egyptian-religion under this source, not a second osiris historically_related_to twin.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

Roman religion

  • Dionysus appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 7 seats Bacchic frenzy as Amata and the Latin women take to the wild in Bacchus’ name. Catalog dionysus seats that Roman Bacchus-rite speech, not a missing bacchus id invent and not thyrsus/drum object walks alone.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

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