What drink would the people of Nannus use to celebrate what Dionysus did for them?
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Alpos In Nonnus' "Dionysiaca" (late fourth or early fifth century CE), Alpos is a Sicilian giant who terrorized Punta del Faro and he was killed by Dionysus with his thyrsus. Like the Hundred-Handed Ones he had many arms, and his head was covered with vipers, like Medusa. Alpos, who does not appear elsewhere in Greek mythology, and received no cult, may be considered an invention of the fertile imagination of Nonnus.
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Dionysus Dionysus ( ; Greek: Διόνυσος "Dionysos") is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in ancient Greek religion and myth. Wine played an important role in Greek culture, and the cult of Dionysus was the main religious focus for its unrestrained consumption. His worship became firmly established in the seventh century BC. He may have been worshipped as early as c. 1500–1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks; traces of Dionysian-type cult have also been found in ancient Minoan Crete. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. In some cults, he arrives from the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in others, from Ethiopia in the South. He is a god of epiphany, "the god that comes", and his "foreignness" as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. He is a major, popular figure of Greek mythology and religion, becoming increasingly important over time, and included in some lists of the twelve Olympians, as the last of their number, and the only god born from a mortal mother. His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theatre.
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Lesbian wine Lesbos wine is wine made on the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea. The island has a long history of winemaking dating back to at least the 7th century BC when it was mentioned in the works of Homer. During this time the area competed with the wines of Chios for the Greek market. An apocryphal account details one of the brothers of the poet Sappho as a merchant trading Lesbos wine with the Greek colony of Naucratis in Egypt. The most noted Lesbos wine was known as "Pramnian" which draws similarities today to the Hungarian wine Eszencia. The popularity of Lesbos wine continued into Roman times where it was highly valued along with other Aegean wines of Chios, Thasos and Kos.
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Silenus In Greek mythology, Silenus ( ; Greek: Σειληνός "Seilēnos") was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. He is typically older than the satyrs of the Dionysian retinue "(thiasos)", and sometimes considerably older, in which case he may be referred to as a Papposilenus. The plural "sileni" refers to the mythological figure as a type that is sometimes thought to be differentiated from a satyr by having the attributes of a horse rather than a goat, though usage of the two words is not consistent enough to permit a sharp distinction.
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Habinnas Habinnas is one of the guests at Trimalchio's Feast ("Cena Trimalchionis") in the "Satyricon" of Petronius Arbiter. He is described as a stonemason, who has designed the luxurious tomb that Trimalchio shows off to his guests, and like Trimalchio he is a sevir. It has been suggested that the name is Semitic. His entry into the feast has been seen as a parody of that of Alcibiades in the Symposium of Plato.
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Clitumnus In Roman mythology, Clitumnus ( ; ) was a son of Oceanus and Tethys. He was the god of the Clitunno River.
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Dindymene Dindymene, in ancient Phrygian mythology, is one of the names of Cybele, mother of the gods.
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Omophagia Omophagia, or omophagy (from Greek ωμός "raw") is the eating of raw flesh. The term is of importance in the context of the cult worship of Dionysus.
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Philip of Acarnania Philip of Acarnania was friend and physician of Alexander the Great, of whom a well-known story is told by several ancient authors. He was the means of saving the king's life, when he had been seized with a severe attack of fever, brought on by bathing in the cold waters of the river Cydnus in Cilicia, after being violently heated, 333 BC. Parmenion sent to warn Alexander that Philippus had been bribed by Darius III to poison him ; the king, however, would not believe the information, nor doubt the fidelity of his physician, but, while he drank off the draught prepared for him, he put into his hands the letter he had just received, fixing his eyes at the same time steadily on his countenance. A well-known modern picture represents this incident ; and the king's speedy recovery fully justified his confidence in the skill and honesty of his physician.
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Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth Saint Dionysius was the bishop of Corinth in about the year 171. His feast day is commemorated on November 29.
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Dione (Titaness) Dione ( ; Greek: Διώνη , "Diōnē") was an ancient Greek goddess, an oracular Titaness primarily known from Book V of Homer's "Iliad", where she tends to the wounds suffered by her daughter Aphrodite. One source describes her as an ancient wife of Zeus.
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Divinity (confectionery) Divinity is a nougat-like confection made with egg white, corn syrup, and sugar. Optional ingredients such as flavors, chopped dried fruit and chopped nuts are frequently added. Replacing the sugar with brown sugar results in a related confection called "sea foam".
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Hippocras Hippocras (), sometimes spelled hipocras or hypocras, is a drink made from wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, and possibly heated. After steeping the spices in the sweetened wine for a day, the spices are strained out through a conical cloth filter bag called a "manicum hippocraticum" or Hippocratic sleeve (originally devised by the 5th century BC Greek physician Hippocrates to filter water). This is the origin of the name hippocras.
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Numicus The Numicus was a river of ancient Latium which flowed into the sea between the towns of Lavinium and Ardea. According to the mythology of Livy, Aeneas lies buried on its banks. The river is also represented in ancient texts as a river-god Numicius (Greek: "Nomikios"). As described by Ovid, at the behest of Venus, Numicus cleans Aeneas of all of his mortal parts so that he may become a god, known as Indiges.
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Cycnus (king of Liguria) In Greek mythology, Cycnus (Κύκνος "swan") or Cygnus, was a king of Liguria.
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Melampus In Greek mythology, Melampus (Ancient Greek: Μελάμπους , "Melampous"), was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos. He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Egyptians and that he could understand the language of animals. A number of pseudepigraphal works of divination were circulated in Classical and Hellenistic times under the name Melampus. According to Herodotus and Pausanias (vi.17.6), on the authority of Hesiod, his father was Amythaon, whose name implies the "ineffable" or "unspeakably great"; Thus Melampus and his heirs were "Amythaides" of the "House of Amythaon".
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Andinus Andinus is a theonym used in the Roman Empire to refer to a god worshipped in the area of modern-day Kačanik, once upper Moesia - Dardania. It may be related to Andis. The theonym has been classified as a Continental Celtic deity but has also been taken to be an Illyrian divine name. At any rate, the epigraphic evidence for the theonym was uncovered in the area of the ancient Dardani tribe. The name may have local origin in Dardania, during the Trajan era. The name may have some Thracian - south Pannonian - Dalmatian element.
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Nabonidus Nabonidus ( ; Akkadian: 𒁹𒀭𒀝𒉎𒌇 Nabû-naʾid , "<a href="Nabu">Nabu</a> is praised") was the <a href="List%20of%20Kings%20of%20Babylon">last king</a> of the <a href="Neo-Babylonian%20Empire">Neo-Babylonian Empire</a>, reigning from 556–539 BC.
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Dionysius of Heraclea Dionysius (Greek: Διονύσιος , "Dionysios") was a tyrant of Heraclea on the Euxine (known today as the Black Sea). He was a son of Clearchus, who had assumed the tyranny in his place of birth.
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Ginjinha Ginjinha or simply Ginja, is a portuguese liqueur made by infusing "ginja" berries, (sour cherry) ("Prunus cerasus austera", the Morello cherry) in alcohol (aguardente is used) and adding sugar together with other ingredients. Ginjinha is served in a shot form with a piece of the fruit in the bottom of the cup. It is a favourite liqueur of many Portuguese and a typical drink in Lisbon, Alcobaça and Óbidos. Other regions produce ginja with protected designation of origin, for example the "Ginja" "Serra da Estrela".
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Satyr In Greek mythology, a satyr ( , ; Greek: σάτυρος "satyros ", ] ) is one of a troop of ithyphallic male companions of Dionysus with goat-like features and often permanent erection. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs, but in 6th-century BC black-figure pottery human legs are the most common. In Roman Mythology there is a concept similar to satyrs, with goat-like features: the faun, being half-man, half-goat, who roamed the woods and mountains. In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing. Greek-speaking Romans often used the Greek term "saturos " when referring to the Latin "faunus ", and eventually syncretized the two. (The female "Satyresses" were a later invention of poets.)
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Gobannus Gobannus (or Gobannos, the Gaulish form) was a Gallo-Roman god, whose name, denoting "the smith", is normally taken to identify him as patron of smiths.