Both Uses of
Dionysus
in
The Odyssey by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- 'And Phaedra and Procris I saw, and fair Ariadne, the daughter of wizard Minos, whom Theseus on a time was bearing from Crete to the hill of sacred Athens, yet had he no joy of her; for Artemis slew her ere that in sea-girt Dia, by reason of the witness of Dionysus.†
Book 11
- Thy mother gave a twy-handled golden urn, and said that it was the gift of Dionysus, and the workmanship of renowned Hephaestus.†
Book 24 *
Definition:
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(Dionysus) Greek mythology: god of wine and fertility and drama