Bacchus' Birth
Who is Seleme?
This is what Bacchus is crowned with.
What is ivy and fig leaves?
Bacchus is celebrated as this deity.
Who is the god of wine?
They are the two authors mentioned in this lesson.
Who are Ovid and Virgil?
Bacchus's name comes from this Greek word.
What is "to revel"?
This is how Bacchus' mother died.
What is being burned to ashes?
This describes how Bacchus is painted.
What is sometimes as an old man and sometimes as a youthful, beardless boy?
These were games of squeezing grapes the quickly make the sweetest wine.
What were the Epilenaea?
This is the source that ancient fables borrow from to patch up their conceits.
What is Holy Scripture?
Instead of a sceptre, Bacchus holds this in his hand.
What is a thyrsus or a javelin?
This is how Bacchus was born.
What is the significance of Bacchus being sewn on Jupiter's thigh?
This is how Bacchus is represented.
This is with swollen cheeks, a red face and a bloated body.
These were feasts celebrated in Bacchus' name by the Athenians.
What were the Apaturia?
The Oscilla
What are little wooden or earthen images of Bacchus that were hung high up in trees?
These are what draw Bacchus' chariots.
What are tigers, lions, lynxes and panthers?
This is what Macris did at Bacchus' birth.
What is anointing his lips with honey?
These are the nations that Bacchus conquered.
What are India, Syria, Egypt and Phyrgia?
These were festivals observed in January which was the month sacred to Bacchus.
What were the Ascolia?
These are three ways that Bacchus is like Moses.
What are:
1. Both were born in Egypt. 2. Bimatur, which belongs to Bacchus, may be ascribed to Moses.
3. Both were beautiful men, brought up in Arabia, good soldiers, and had women in their armies.
4. Orpheus directly styles Bacchus a lawgiver and calls him Moses.
This circumstance occurred when Bacchus was a child.
What are: Tyrrhenian mariners captured him while he slept. Bacchus stupefied them, stopped the ship, caused vines to spring upon the ship and then turned the sailors into dolphins?
These are the first sacrifices, the people who instituted them and how they were celebrated.
What are the Oscophoria, which were instituted by the Phoenicians, celebrated by ranks of boys processing and praying from the temple of Bacchus to the chapel of Pallas.
These are five things that Bacchus invented.
What are the use of wine, commerce, merchandise, navigation and the planting of vines?
This was the Bacchanalia.
These are two ways in which Bacchus and Nimrod resemble each other.
What are:
1. There are similarities between the words Barchus and Bacchus. Barchus means the son of Chus or Nimrod.
2. The name Nimrod may relate to the Hebrew word Namur, or tiger.
3. Bacchus was sometimes called Nebrodes which is the same as Nimrodus.
These are the things that were consecrated to Bacchus.
What are fir, ivy, bindweed, the vine, the dragon and the pie.