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| Description | 1. (Greco-Roman god) Dionysus (/daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/; Greek: Διόνυσος) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, orchards and fruit, vegetation, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth. He is also known as Bacchus (/ˈbækəs/ or /ˈbɑːkəs/; Greek: Βάκχος, Bákkhos), the name adopted by the Romans; the frenzy he induces is bakkheia. Another name used by the Romans is Liber meaning “free”, due to his association with wine and the Bacchanalia and other rites, and the freedom associated with it. His thyrsus, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. As Eleutherios ("the liberator"), his wine, music and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus 2. Mr. D in The Lightning Thief: • Camp director at Camp Half-Blood • Small but porky, with a red nose; big, watery, bloodshot eyes; and curly hair so black it was almost purple. He looked like a cherub who’d turned middle-aged in a trailer park. 3. Dionysus aka David Nyce in the Freya series by Matthew Laurence. (Greek Deity) Dionysus has figured out that as the god of abandoned good times and bliss, he is a natural for the Disney Corporation. He has worked his way up the corporate ladder. When he spots Sara Vanadi, aka Freya, he immediately attempts to seduce her. She is actually repulsed by him, to his fury. |
