All 3 Uses of
Bacchus
in
Antigone
- Bacchus, shaker of the ground!†
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- 1) Thus Dryas' child, the rash Edonian King, For words of high disdain Did Bacchus to a rocky dungeon bring, To cool the madness of a fevered brain.†
- Where Ismenus rolls his waters, Where the Dragon's teeth were sown, Where the Bacchanals thy daughters Round thee roam, There thy home; Thebes, O Bacchus, is thine own.†
Definition:
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(Bacchus) Roman mythology: god of wine