Bakcheus

Bakcheus (Βακχεύς)

Another form of Bakchos, sometimes used as a self-standing name, sometimes as an epithet of Dionysos, Soph. Antig. 1121. Eurip. Bakch. 145; Ion 218. Orph. Hymn. 45, 2. 52, 1. Hymn. in Attin (Bergk Poet. lyr. gr. III⁴ 685. 687). Anthol. Plan. 156, 3. Bakcheus is attested as an epiclesis of Dionysus in Naxos (Athen. III 78 c), in Erythrai (Dittenberger Syll. 370, 147 = Rev. arch. XXXIV 107) and on Mykonos (Dittenberger Syll. 373, 27 = Bull. hell. XII 460; cf. Preller Griech. Myth.⁴ I 665, 1). <30> In Aeschyl. frg. 341, Apollo is given the epithet Bakcheus, probably because of the close relationship between Apollo and Dionysos in the Delphic cult, see vol. II p.35. F. A. Voigt in Roschers Lexikon I 1033.

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This article is referenced by: Dionysos (1-2)