The Fates granted one of this figure's lovers, Ampelos, a second life after he was killed in a bad bull-riding accident near the River Pactolus. Though known in some cult centers as Meilichios or "Sweet", this figure received human sacrifices at Chios and Tenedos, earning him the epithet, Omadios or "Eater of Flesh." This father of Oenopion and Deianara was believed to have been the first person to build a bridge across the Euphrates, which allowed him to conquer India. Sometimes known as Zagreus, this god made his divinity clear when he turned a bunch of Tyrrhenian sailors into dolphins and had Pentheus torn to death by his very own mother. Hestia would give up her seat at Olympus in order to accommodate this figure, who fell in love with an abandoned woman on the island of Naxos, Ariade. The Maenads and Bacchae were, for 10 points, the followers of what Greek g
The Fates granted one of this figure's lovers, Ampelos, a second life after he was killed in a bad bull-riding accident near the River Pactolus. Though known in some cult centers as Meilichios or "Sweet", this figure received human sacrifices at Chios and Tenedos, earning him the epithet, Omadios or "Eater of Flesh." This father of Oenopion and Deianara was believed to have been the first person to build a bridge across the Euphrates, which allowed him to conquer India. Sometimes known as Zagreus, this god made his divinity clear when he turned a bunch of Tyrrhenian sailors into dolphins and had Pentheus torn to death by his very own mother. Hestia would give up her seat at Olympus in order to accommodate this figure, who fell in love with an abandoned woman on the island of Naxos, Ariade. The Maenads and Bacchae were, for 10 points, the followers of what Greek god of wine?
The Fates granted one of this figure's lovers, Ampelos, a second life after he was killed in a bad bull-riding accident near the River Pactolus.
{Dionysius}