Dionysus: The God Of Wine

Dionysus/ Bacchus Dionysus is the God of the grape harvest, winemaking, pleasure, vegetation, and festivity (Atsma). Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele (Atsma). Dionysus was a male, with a beard and a robe usually holding a staff with a pine-cone on the top( Atsma). His home is the Mount Olympus, although he was born on Mt. Nysa (Atsma). It is said that he was worshiped between 1500-100 BC. Dionysus was viewed as kind and widely worshiped. He is known for his odd birth and for his obsession of wine (Atsma). He is a mortal god which means he will never die. Dionysus is a god that is very powerful but he doesn’t always act his best.

No one knows when Dionysus was truly born. However, we do know that Dionysus was born on top of Mt. Nysa(Atsma).

Bacchus is the god of Wine (Geller). Bacchus spent his childhood training around great wine lovers (Geller). After training, he traveled the world teaching people how to grow and turn things into wine (Geller). He was known for throwing huge parties where participants would drink large amounts of wine to worship gods. Once Dionysus turned himself into a boy and got drunk (Bulfinch). While drunk some pirates came and asked him where his home was and were going to take him home (Bulfinch). He lied where his home was and told them Naxos so the pirates would take him there (Bulfinch). The pirates were on there way all but one decided it was a good idea to sell the boy into slavery (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). As soon as the pirates turned the ship the winds stopped and the boat filled with grapevines (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). The oars turned into snakes and all the grapevines suddenly became Dionysus head (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). The pirates were all frightened and all but one jumped out in fear (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). The one pirate that didn’t jump out was the same one that didn’t want to sell the boy (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). He sailed the ship to Naxos with the pirate named Acoetes (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). Once the got there Acoetes became the

One night while Ariadne was asleep, Theseus awoke and stole Ariadne's ship (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). Ariadne was stranded on this island and was weeping continuously because she thought that her lover had left her (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). She was not aware that her life was going to change (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). One day after Ariadne was tired of crying Dionysus was attracted to her by her beauty (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). She awoke to Dionysus (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). Dionysus immediately fell in love on site of Ariadne (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). They lived on to have 21 kids, 9 of these kids were Divine and 12 of them were mortal (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). These divine children are; Hymenaios, Lakkhos, Kharites, Methe, Pasithea, Priapos, Sabazios, Telete, and Thysa (Greek Mythological Story of Dionysus and Ariadne). The mortal offspring are Deianeira, Eurymedon, Keramos, Maron, Narkaios, Opinopion, Peparethos, Phanos, Philiasos or Philas, Staphylos, and Thoas