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  • Zeus gave birth to Dionysus out of his own thigh.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Dionysus dryly, "some unplanned dinner entertainment."†   (source)
  • Even Dionysus's kids had found something to do.†   (source)
  • At least, I thought, with Dionysus she would dance every night.†   (source)
  • Dionysus and the Council of Cloven Elders must decide.†   (source)
  • For once I wished Dionysus was here, but even if he had been, I didn't know if he could do anything.†   (source)
  • Dionysus looked bored, twirling a grape vine between his fingers.†   (source)
  • Eventually," muttered Tantalus, staring at Dionysus's Diet Coke.†   (source)
  • His tone made it obvious that he and Dionysus had already discussed me at length.†   (source)
  • Dionysus looked happy for the first time.†   (source)
  • There was my dad, Poseidon, with his trident, holding out grapes for Dionysus to turn into wine.†   (source)
  • Dionysus could make Diet Coke appear out of thin air.†   (source)
  • With that, Dionysus snapped his fingers.†   (source)
  • Dionysus's eyes flared with purple fire.†   (source)
  • Mr. D (Dionysus) Camp Director, Olympian Council #12 That's another thing about ADHD.†   (source)
  • Dionysus was an overgrown brat, but he was an immortal, superpowerful overgrown brat.†   (source)
  • The other cabins filed in: Demeter, Apollo, Aphrodite, Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Dionysus's twins were walking around in the strawberry fields, making the plants grow.†   (source)
  • An enemy half-blood was fighting with a son of Dionysus, but it wasn't much of a contest.†   (source)
  • "Dionysus is calling a council of cabin leaders to discuss the prophecy," she said.†   (source)
  • Dionysus rose, and the invisible players' cards dropped to the table.†   (source)
  • She hauled me out of the Big House before Dionysus could remember that he wanted to kill me.†   (source)
  • On special assignment here until, well, until my Lord Dionysus decides otherwise.†   (source)
  • We reached the amphitheater, and Dionysus pointed. toward the campfire.†   (source)
  • Dionysus was not that handsome, and Hermes's nose wasn't that big.†   (source)
  • Dionysus picked up a playing card, twisted it, and it became a plastic rectangle.†   (source)
  • Well, said Dionysus, dosing his refrigerator.†   (source)
  • "Ah, well," Dionysus said, his voice dripping with false sympathy.†   (source)
  • "Oh, go sit down, Johnson," Dionysus sighed.†   (source)
  • "If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames.†   (source)
  • I didn't need to make Dionysus mad, too.†   (source)
  • I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit.†   (source)
  • If Dionysus was gone, that was the best news I'd had all day.†   (source)
  • From what I'd seen, Dionysus's kids were actually good athletes, but there were only two of them.†   (source)
  • "This boy is still dangerous," Dionysus warned.†   (source)
  • "Go on, then, old fellow," Dionysus said, a strange sparkle in his eyes.†   (source)
  • "That's where Dionysus went," I remembered.†   (source)
  • And may the gods"—he glanced at Dionysus—"present company included, we hope—be with you."†   (source)
  • Ares had allied themselves with everybody else: Dionysus, Demeter, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus.†   (source)
  • Dionysus clapped politely, leading to some halfhearted applause from the satyrs.†   (source)
  • "This boy," Dionysus told him, "you need to watch.†   (source)
  • She knew the god in his Greek form, Dionysus—or Mr. D, as they called him back at Camp Half-Blood.†   (source)
  • Dakota shared Kool-Aid with the kids from the Dionysus cabin.†   (source)
  • Ephialtes and Otis …. well, together they were sort of the anti-Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Hazel Levesque is not Hercules or Dionysus, but I think you will find her just as formidable.†   (source)
  • I found Dionysus's son Pollux propped up against a tree.†   (source)
  • Dionysus and Chiron didn't need a landline.†   (source)
  • Oh, of course they wanted to kill Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Why, Bobby Earl's birthday party," Dionysus said.†   (source)
  • Sure, Dionysus was the god of revelry and out-of-control parties.†   (source)
  • Dionysus will be severely cranky with you for having delayed our voyage.†   (source)
  • Dionysus sighed, as several naiads came forward to help Grover.†   (source)
  • I tried to imagine putting up with Dionysus until I was an old man, assuming I lived that long.†   (source)
  • "Dionysus," Percy called, holding up Chrysaor's golden mask.†   (source)
  • You see, my girl, I am the anti-Dionysus.†   (source)
  • I stared at him, trying to wrap my mind around the idea that Dionysus could be a caring father.†   (source)
  • I'll tell Dionysus you said that:' Leneus paled.†   (source)
  • The only god who understands me even a little bit is Dionysus.†   (source)
  • "At Camp Half-Blood," Percy said, "I know you as Mr. D—Dionysus."†   (source)
  • When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him.†   (source)
  • "Oh, stop chewing your shirt," Dionysus chided.†   (source)
  • Ephialtes wasn't so much the anti-Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Dionysus's head was still wrapped in a bandage.†   (source)
  • It's like the gods have sealed themselves off Even my mom won't answer my prayers, and our camp director, Dionysus, was recalled.†   (source)
  • Even Dionysus must help out.†   (source)
  • "Dionysus," the king agreed.†   (source)
  • "Dionysus," I explained.†   (source)
  • Dionysus?†   (source)
  • "Oh, all right," Dionysus relented.†   (source)
  • Dionysus went around growing refreshment stands out of the ground, and a beautiful woman walked with him arm in arm— his wife, Ariadne.†   (source)
  • Striding into the grove was Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Dionysus sat at the pinochle table in his tiger-striped Hawaiian shirt with his Diet Coke, just as he had on my first day.†   (source)
  • Dionysus sat down and crossed his legs.†   (source)
  • Everybody looked at Dionysus, I guess because he was the only god present and gods are supposed to know things.†   (source)
  • Above the pool, shimmering in the rainbow mist, was an Iris-message vision of Dionysus, Tantalus, and the whole camp in the dining pavilion.†   (source)
  • "Blah, blah, blah," Dionysus said.†   (source)
  • The enemy stabbed him in the arm then dubbed him over the head with the butt of his sword, and Dionysus's son went down.†   (source)
  • She fixed me with her cold gray stare, and I realized what a terrible enemy Athena would make, ten times worse than Ares or Dionysus or maybe even my father.†   (source)
  • Mr. D's real name is Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Even DIONYSUS at CAMP HALF-BLOOD!†   (source)
  • I noticed that Dionysus was treading on air, his polished black shoes hovering an inch off the ground.†   (source)
  • "Nonsense," Dionysus said.†   (source)
  • "Oh please Ares," Dionysus sighed.†   (source)
  • Dionysus gazed down at us wearily.†   (source)
  • I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong: Dear------ Peter Johnson------_ , If you intend to stay at Camp Half-Blood year-round, you must inform the Big House by noon today.†   (source)
  • Dionysus waved his hand, and a new chair grew out of the ground next to Silenus's-a throne made of grapevines.†   (source)
  • Dionysus snapped his fingers.†   (source)
  • The son of Dionysus who'd gone down fighting an enemy half-blood was wrapped in a deep purple shroud embroidered with grapevines.†   (source)
  • Dionysus left early.†   (source)
  • "Oh, joy," Dionysus muttered.†   (source)
  • You're Dionysus," I said.†   (source)
  • Dionysus raised his eyebrows.†   (source)
  • I was used to seeing Dionysus by the fireplace, playing cards and eating grapes and griping at satyrs, but Mr. D was still away.†   (source)
  • Dionysus snickered.†   (source)
  • Dionysus asked.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if Dionysus had gotten off his butt and actually started helping the gods recruit against the Titan threat, things must be looking pretty bad.†   (source)
  • Dionysus, right?†   (source)
  • "I say no," Dionysus countered.†   (source)
  • "Strike that," Dionysus said.†   (source)
  • Dionysus abstained.†   (source)
  • Dionysus said.†   (source)
  • I mean, I wasn't exactly a gardening type, but Calypso had arbors covered with six different colors of roses, lattices filled with honeysuckle, rows of grapevines bursting with red and purple grapes that would've made Dionysus sit up and beg.†   (source)
  • I turned to Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Dionysus looked at Zoe.†   (source)
  • Yes, Lord Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Dionysus snapped.†   (source)
  • "Ah, yes," Dionysus said.†   (source)
  • Around the table, people were trying not to laugh—the Stoll brothers, Pollux from the Dionysus cabin, Katie Gardner from Demeter.†   (source)
  • When we last met, you had the help of Hercules and Dionysus—the most powerful heroes in the world, both of them destined to become gods.†   (source)
  • He'd changed out of the gladiator armor and was now wearing a Hawaiian shirt that even Dionysus would've found vulgar.†   (source)
  • So you admit Dionysus is our director!†   (source)
  • "As you know," Chiron interrupted, his tone slightly angry now, "our director, Dionysus, is busy with the war.†   (source)
  • Dionysus was incapacitated yesterday.†   (source)
  • He had no faith that Dionysus would hear them or care, much less help them in their battle against the twin giants, but he had to try.†   (source)
  • He was Dionysus gone crazy on steroids.†   (source)
  • Chiron and Dionysus stopped you.†   (source)
  • "Your best," Dionysus muttered.†   (source)
  • And of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek–Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis, and Dionysus.†   (source)
  • Dionysus thinks he knows parties?†   (source)
  • Dionysus inserted another quarter.†   (source)
  • "Dionysus," Percy muttered.†   (source)
  • "Party time," Dionysus said.†   (source)
  • Dionysus called.†   (source)
  • Was that Dionysus?†   (source)
  • Dionysus snarled.†   (source)
  • Dionysus snorted.†   (source)
  • Dionysus cursed.†   (source)
  • Dionysus sent us here.†   (source)
  • Dionysus cried.†   (source)
  • The great Dionysus!†   (source)
  • And in this pillage of the loaded shelves, he found himself wedged firmly into the grotesque pattern of Protestant fiction which yields the rewards of Dionysus to the loyal disciples of John Calvin, panting and praying in a breath, guarding the plumtree with the altar fires, outdoing the pagan harlot with the sanctified hussy.†   (source)
  • And he renewed the flame of his lance with a gesture which made one think of Dionysus of Crete.†   (source)
  • He showed him the theatre of Dionysus and explained in what order the people sat, and how beyond they could see the blue Aegean.†   (source)
  • Artemis killed her first
    on wave-washed Dia's shores, accused by Dionysus.
    And I saw Clymene, Maera and loathsome Eriphyle-
    bribed with a golden necklace
    to lure her lawful husband to his death ….
    But the whole cortege I could never tally, never name,
    not all the daughters and wives of great men I saw there.
    Long before that, the godsent night would ebb away.
    But the time has come for sleep, either with friends
    aboard your swift ship or here in your own house.
    My passage home…†   (source)
  • …roar went up.
    And once the god of fire had burned your corpse to ash,
    at first light we gathered your white bones, Achilles,
    cured them in strong neat wine and seasoned oils.
    Your mother gave us a gold two-handled urn,
    a gift from Dionysus, she said,
    a masterwork of the famous Smith, the god of fire.
    Your white bones rest in that, my brilliant Achilles,
    mixed with the bones of dead Patroclus, Menoetius' son,
    apart from those of Antilochus, whom you treasured
    more than…†   (source)
  • 1) Thou by many names adored, Child of Zeus the God of thunder, Of a Theban bride the wonder, Fair Italia's guardian lord; In the deep-embosomed glades Of the Eleusinian Queen Haunt of revelers, men and maids, Dionysus, thou art seen.†   (source)
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