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Visual depiction of Dionysus

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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth

Dionysus

Greek god of wine and ecstasy


seated on a vine-laden throne, thyrsus staff in hand, leopard at his feet, maenads dancing in the torchlit grove

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
earth

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.