Olympic Pantheon

Dionysos

Roman Name:   Bacchus, Liber

Other Names and Epithets:    Bacchus (even in Greece); Bromios (= “thunderer”); Zagreus; many other names

Responsibilities:    Wine and excess; fertility; sometimes associated with bulls

Attributes:    Wine-cup; vines; ivy wreath; often surrounded by revellers (satyrs, maenads);
here he is shown with a satyr and holds a thyrsus

Sacred Site(s):    Thrace, Thebes, the East

Tree:   Ivy

Also see Dionysos and Maenads.