dionysus

Dionysus
In classical mythology, Dionysus is the god of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival. The geographical origins of his cult were unknown to the classical Greeks, but almost all myths depicted him as having "foreign" origins: typical of the god of the epiphany, "the god that comes".
He was also known as Bacchus and the frenzy he induces, bakkheia. He is the patron deity of agriculture and the theater. He was also known as the Liberator), freeing one from one's normal self, by madness, ecstasy, or wine. The divine mission of Dionysus was to mingle the music of the aulos and to bring an end to care and worry. Scholars have discussed Dionysus' relationship to the "cult of the souls" and his ability to preside over communication between the living and the dead.
In Greek mythology, Dionysus is made to be a son of Zeus and Semele; other versions of the myth contend that he is a son of Zeus and Persephone. He is described as being womanly or "man-womanish".

- he was born in Thebes
- the son of Zeus and Semele
- He taught men culture of the vine and the mysteries of his worship and everywhere they accepted him
- The mother whom he had never seen was not forgotten ,he took her up to Olympus for the reason that his mother is a motor but she is a mother of a god
- God of wine could b e kind and beneficent but may also be cruel and drive people on to frightful deeds
- Worship of Dionysus was centered in 2 ideas: of freedom and ecstatic joy; of savage brutality.
- He was the power which sometimes made men commit frightful and atrocious crimes
- He was the assurance that death does not end it all
- He rescue his mother so he was embodiment of the life that stronger than death