Dionysius

Good Essay on Greek God of Wine and Merriment, Dionysius This actually takes up 3-4 pages depending on the font size you use, and assuming you double space it and put it into normal paragraph form. Excellent, other misc. B. S. Dionysus         Dionysus was the most widely worshipped and popular god in ancient Greece. It's not difficult to see why; he was their god of wine, merriment, ritual dance, warm moisture, and later, civilization. He …

…of the festivities was the sparagmos. During this part of the ceremony, a live goat would be disemboweled, and the partygoers would feast upon its raw flesh. In Rome, Dionysus was known as Bacchus, and his festival, or Bacchanalia, was also extremely immoral, even by Rome's standards. So immoral in fact, that the Roman Senate in 186 B.C., made a law forbidding the celebration of the Bacchanalia. The law apparently didn't stop those fun-loving Romans,