Dionysus, also known by the Roman name Bacchus, is not only a god but an object of frenzied worship. His followers are Bacchae, mortal women who, according to the Greek dramatist Euripides in his ...

The Greeks considered Dionysus a foreign god from the east, and many of his mythological stories recount his wanderings around Asia. The epic poem Dionysiaca, written by the 5th century CE Greek ...