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Dionysus or Dionysos (in Greek, Διόνυσος or Διώνυσος; associate with Roman Liber), is the god of wine, the inspirer of madness, and a major figure of Greek mythology. He represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. The geographical origins of his cult were unknown, but almost all myths depicted him as having "foreign" (i.e. non-Greek) origins.

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  • Ancient Greeks believed that wine was a gift from this god, the Greek equivalent of Bacchus
  • This Greek god of wine gave Midas his "golden touch"
  • In ancient Greece wild times were had by maenads, devotees of this wine god
  • The Maenads were frenzied followers of this God of wine & vegetation
  • Fufluns was the Etruscan counterpart of this Greco-Roman god of grape guzzling
  • He was known as the "God of the Vines" or the "God of Wine"
  • The last Greek god to be deified, the Romans called him Bacchus
  • Denise is derived from the name of this Greek god of wine
  • His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes
  • This Greek god loved a boy named Ampelos, who was turned into a grapevine when he died
  • Sophocles' plays were 1st performed on the Acropolis in the theater named for this god
  • Pan hung out a lot with this wine god, known to some as Bacchus

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