Dionysus Bacchus - The ancient Greek god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy order - Bronze

Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Material: Pure Bronze

Dimensions (approximately):
Height: 23 cm - 9,1 inches
Width: 12 cm - 4,7 inches
Length: 3,5 cm - 1,4 inches
Weight: 300 g

Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, often seems a familiar, likable figure, perhaps because wine and its associated rituals are such a characteristic ingredient of our own modern-day existence. Like other deities, Dionysus appears in human form and is credited with divine powers; yet thanks to his love of drinking, dancing, music and uninhibited merry-making with free-spirited friends, he offers an even more evocative reflection of the human condition and represented a favorite figure in ancient Greek religion and art.
Dionysus was the son of Zeus, ruler of the Olympian gods, and order Semele, a Theban princess and daughter of King Cadmus. After his mother was tricked and killed by Hera (Zeus' vengeful wife), Dionysus was rescued from Semele's womb by his father and implanted in his thigh. On his son's birth, Zeus placed Dionysus in the care of nymphs who inhabited the mythical mountain Nysa – variously located by mythologists somewhere to the east, perhaps even in distant India. As he matured, Dionysus took up wandering from land to land, accompanied by an entourage that included his tutor, Silenus, satyrs, maenads and the lustful god Pan, a human-like figure with the horns and legs of a goat. Silenus was the leader of the satyrs: hybrid woodland creatures envisioned as men with horses' ears, tails and sometimes legs. The maenads were “raving” women inspired by Dionysus, who also loved drinking, dancing and attaining a state of ecstasy. Dionysus took as his wife Ariadne, who had aided Theseus in escaping the labyrinth at Knossos before being left by the Athenian hero on a Naxian beach. After Ariadne's death, Dionysus entered Hades and brought both her and Semele to Mt Olympus to live as immortals. In ancient art, Dionysus is often pictured carrying a thyrsus, a wooden staff entwined with ivy and capped with a pine cone and vine leaves.

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