Dionysus 
Dionysos is the god of wine, intoxication, and creative ecstasy. He is also known as Dionysus, Bacchus or Bakchos, and Liber (Roman). His attributes in iconography include a drinking vessel, an ivy wreath, grape vines, and the thyrsos (a long fennel stalk topped with ivy leaves). 
Images
1. Dionysos and Hephaistos: Image, Caeretan Hydria, ca 550 BC
2. Dionysos on a ship: Image, Exekias, ca 540 BC
3. Birth of Dionysos: Image, Alkimachos Painter, ca 460 BC.
4. Hermes delivers the infant Dionysos to Papposilenos and nymph: Large image, Phiale Painter, ca 430 BC.
5. Hermes and the infant Dionysos: Image, Praxiteles: temple of Hera, Olympia, ca 330 BC.
6. Silenus with the Infant Dionysus: Large image, Roman copy after a statue attributed to Lysippos, original ca 310-300 BC.
7. Dionysos: Large image, Great Altar of Zeus in Pergamon, ca 180-175 BC.
8. Head of Dionysos: Large image, Roman mosaic, 1st century AD.
9. Birth of Dionysos: Large image, Pompeiian wall painting, 1st century AD.
10. Dionysos and Herakles: Image, Antioch (Roman) mosaic, ca 50-115 AD.
11. Dionysos: Image, Roman relief, 2nd century AD.
12. Dionysus attended by the Four Seasons, Tellus, and Oceanus: Image, Roman Sarcophagus relief, ca 220-230 AD.
13.Drinking contest between Dionysos and Herakles: Image, Antioch (Roman) mosaic, ca 250-300 AD.
14. Dionysos and Ariadne: Image, Roman sarcophagus, 4th century AD.
15. Offerings made before the image of Dionysus: Attic vase from Campania, 5th cent. BC.
16. Maenads with Dionysus as a bull, one of his principal animal forms.
17. Wall-painting of the Bacchanalian dance: Villa Pamfili, Rome, 1st cent. AD.
18. Vase-painting of Ariadne embraced by Dionysus.
19. Four scenes from an initiation into the Mysteries of Dionysus.
20. Ecstatic Maenad, Image, 5th century B.C.
21. Rapt Maenad, Image, 5th century B.C.

Later Representations in Art

1. Bacchus: Large image, Michelangelo, Buonarroti, 1497.
2. Bacchus and Ariadne: Large image, Titian, 1520-23.
3. Bacchus and Ariadne: Large image, Bertin, Nicolas, c 1710-15.

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