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Dionysus 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.
Ο Διόνυσος, γιος του θεού Δία, ανήκει στις ελάσσονες πλην όμως
σημαντικές θεότητες του αρχαιοελληνικού πανθέου, καθώς η λατρεία του
επηρέασε σημαντικά τα θρησκευτικά δρώμενα της ελλαδικής επικράτειας.
Παρόλο που δεν είναι Oλύμπιος θεός και ο Όμηρος δείχνει να τον αγνοεί,
ήδη από τον 6ο π.Χ. αι., αναπαρίσταται μαζί με τους Oλυμπίους.
Ο Διόνυσος, που ονομάζεται επίσης Βάκχος και στη Ρώμη ταυτίζεται με τον αρχαίο ιταλικό θεό Liber Pater, στην κλασική εποχή είναι κατά κύριο λόγο θεός του αμπελιού, του κρασιού και της μυστικής έκστασης. Ο μύθος του είναι περίπλοκος γιατί ενώνει ποικίλα στοιχεία, προερχόμενα όχι μόνο από την Ελλάδα αλλά και από γειτονικές χώρες. Ο Διόνυσος, για παράδειγμα, αφομοίωσε ανάλογες λατρείες της Μικράς Ασίας και αυτός ο μερικός συγκρητισμός δημιούργησε επεισόδια λιγότερο ή περισσότερο συνδεόμενα με την υπόλοιπη ιστορία του. |