Given epithets including "Bromios" and "Taurokeros," this character was raised by residents of Nysa, and his attributes included a thyrsus and kantharos.
Given epithets including "Bromios" and "Taurokeros," this character was raised by residents of Nysa, and his attributes included a thyrsus and kantharos. His mother was eventually made into the goddess Thyone, and this figure was honored via songs known as dithyrambs, which were sung at such festivals dedicated to him as the Lenaia. In Orphic legend, he is given the name Zagreus, and Hera has the Titans rip him to shreds, though Zeus saves his still-beating heart. This figure spared Acoetes while turning the rest of the pirates that had kidnapped him into dolphins, and he ritually sodomized himself on the tomb of his guide Prosymnus. He married Ariadne after Theseus left her on Naxos and drove Lycurgus of Thrace insane, and he was born from Zeus' thigh after his mother died after Hera tricked her into demanding that Zeus show himself in all his glory. For 10 points, identify this son of Semele, the Greek god of revelry and wine.
Given epithets including "Bromios" and "Taurokeros," this character was raised by residents of Nysa, and his attributes included a thyrsus and kantharos.
{Dionysus} [accept {Bacchus} or {Oeneus}]