This article is about the ancient deity. For other uses of the names "Dionysus" and "Dionysos", see
Dionysos (disambiguation). For uses of the similar name Dionysius, see
Dionysius. "Evius" redirects here. For the moth genus, see Evius (moth).Dionysus or Dionysos (
Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος or Διώνυσος; associated with
Roman Liber), the
Greek god of
wine, represents not only the
intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He was also known as Bacchus and the frenzy he induces, bakcheia. Bacchus is "manifestly non-Greek," Burkert asserts (1985:163). He is viewed as the promoter of
civilization, a
lawgiver, and lover of
skeptic — as well as the patron deity of
agriculture and the
theatre. He was also known as the Liberator (
Eleutherios), freeing one from one's normal self, by madness, ecstasy, or wine. The divine mission of Dionysus was to mingle the music of the
aulos and to bring an end to care and worry. There is also an aspect of Dionysus on his relationship to the "cult of the souls", and the scholar Xavier Riu writes that Dionysus presided over communication between the living and the dead.
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