Selected Web Resources on the Priest of Bacchus
Background on Dionysos/Bacchus
Entry for
Dionysos
from Encyclopedia Mythica
more information
on Dionysos (Mythography)
images, stories, family tree, and additional background material on
Dionysos
(Greek Mythology Link)
Richard Seaford's essay on the
Mysteries of Dionysos at Pompeii
(at Diotima)
Images
Three statues
of Dionysos at the Getty;
statue of young Dionysos
at the Louvre;
Dionysos
(Hermitage Museum);
Antinous as Dionysos
(Hermitage);
Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons sarcophagus
(Metrpolitan Museum)
Great collection of
images of Dionysos
, both Greek and Roman (Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources)
Sculptures of Dionysos
(Perseus);
vase paintings of Dionysos
(Perseus)
Texts: Greek
The oldest hymns to Dionysus are preserved in the Homeric Hymns (
the birth of Dionysos
;
Dionysos and the pirates
)
Euripides'
Bacchae
(Internet Classics Archive); Roger Dunkle's
Study Guide
for Euripides'
Bacchae
Collection of texts about Dionysos
(Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources)
Texts: Roman
Read how the
worship of Bacchus was banned
in Rome by the Roman Senate (186 BCE)
Catullus' mini-epic (
Poem 64
) that tells the story of Peleus and Thetis and Dionysus and Ariadne
Search for Bacchus or Dionysus in Lisa Auanger's
Selected List of Modern Poetry with a Classical Basis