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Dionysia   Listen
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Dionysia  n. pl.  (Class. Antiq.) Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia; the greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of both tragedies and comedies.






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"Dionysia" Quotes from Famous Books



... of which, floating from his hair, become so noble in the hands of Titian and Tintoret, was actually worn on the head for coolness; his earliest and most sacred images were wrought in the wood of the vine. The people of the vineyard had their feast, the little or country Dionysia, which still lived on, side by side with the greater ceremonies of a later time, celebrated in December, the time of the storing of the new wine. It was then that the potters' fair came, calpis and ...
— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater



Words linked to "Dionysia" :   fete, bacchanalia, festival



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