Greek mythology
Dionysus
God of ecstasy, theater, wine, and altered identity
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Siblings
- Apollo
- Group
- Divine · Olympians · Love · Demigods
- Appears in
- Dionysus · Midas and the Golden Touch · Hephaestus: Fire and Revenge
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- Mount Olympus · Thebes
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Dionysus is the god of wine, ecstasy, and the theater, twice-born after his mortal mother Semele is consumed by Zeus's glory and the unborn child is sewn into his father's thigh. He moves through the world spreading his rapturous rites, rewarding his followers with divine frenzy and destroying those who deny him, as the doomed king Pentheus learns. He is the god of liberation and madness, where joy and terror are never far apart.
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- Who is Dionysus?
- Dionysus is the god of wine, ecstasy, and the theater, twice-born after his mortal mother Semele is consumed by Zeus's glory and the unborn child is sewn into his father's thigh.
- Which mythology does Dionysus belong to?
- Dionysus belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Dionysus appear in?
- Dionysus appears in Dionysus, Midas and the Golden Touch, Hephaestus: Fire and Revenge, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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