{"id":84769,"date":"2020-11-16T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=84769"},"modified":"2020-12-22T18:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:28:05","slug":"bacchus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/bacchus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacchus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_88 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Chapters<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/bacchus\/#bacchanalia\" >Bacchanalia<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n    <div class=\"ramka_ze_zdjeciem float-right \"\n         style=\"\">\n\n        <div class=\"zdjecie\">\n            <img\n                class=\"ramka-ze-zdjeciem\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/346px-Michelangelo_Bacchus.jpg\"\n                                alt=\"Bacchus by Michelangelo\"\n                width=\"240\"\n                height=\"416\"\n               \n               \n            \/>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/346px-Michelangelo_Bacchus.jpg\"\n               rel=\"fancybox\"\n               title=\"Bacchus by Michelangelo.\">\n                <div class=\"iover\">\n                    <div class=\"zicon\">\n                        <i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\"><\/i>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"opis\">\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/reflections-on-bacchus\/\">Bacchus<\/a> by Michelangelo.            <\/div>\n        \n                    <div class=\"chmurka\">\n                Na licencji Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa - Na tych samych warunkach 3.0.            <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n<p><em>Bacchus<\/em> was the Roman god of wild nature and wine &#8211; he represented not only its intoxicating influence but also the beneficent one. He was even, according to some myths, a chthonic deity. Dionysus was adopted by the Romans like many other Greek deities. Bacchus was identified with the agricultural god Liber (&#8220;the free one&#8221;) as early as 494 BCE.<\/p>\n<p>Dionysus appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> at the beginning of the 5th-century BCE during a famine. By decision of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/roman-senate\/\">senate<\/a>, he was included in the official <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/pantheon-in-rome\/\">pantheon<\/a> along with other Hellenic deities who were to ensure bountiful crops &#8211; Core and Demeter.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"bacchanalia\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/bacchanalia-the-first-persecutions\/\">Bacchanalia<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Despite the popular belief, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/bacchanalia-the-first-persecutions\/\">Bacchanalia<\/a> were not state-owned. The various associations most often celebrated them in their own way, in addition to the same time as the state <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/roman-feasts\/liberalia\/\">Liberalia<\/a>, which was officially celebrated on March 16 and 17. During Bacchanalia, games and rituals in honour of Bacchus were to take place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/tytus-liwiusz\/\">Titus Livius<\/a> maintains that they originated in Great <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/greece-birth-of-city\/\">Greece<\/a>, from where they moved to Etruria and then Rome, and spread especially in southern Italy. They were associated with numerous condemned abuses, which in time turned into dissolute orgies<sup class=\"footnote\" data-qtip=\"Titus Livy, Ab Urbe condita, XXXIX\" data-footid=\"1\">1<\/sup>. It is recommended to be sceptical about the version of events presented by Livy.<\/p>\n<p>Bacchanalia was reformed by the Senate in 186 BCE. The pretext was a concern for the morality of citizens and for public <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/\">religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"ramka_ze_zdjeciem float-center \"\n         style=\"\">\n\n        <div class=\"zdjecie\">\n            <img\n                class=\"ramka-ze-zdjeciem\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sarkofag.jpg\"\n                                alt=\"Bacchanalia shown on a Roman sarcophagus\"\n                width=\"700\"\n                height=\"352\"\n               \n               \n            \/>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sarkofag.jpg\"\n               rel=\"fancybox\"\n               title=\"Bacchanalia shown on a Roman sarcophagus, dated 210-220 CE.\">\n                <div class=\"iover\">\n                    <div class=\"zicon\">\n                        <i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\"><\/i>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"opis\">\n                                <b>Bacchanalia<\/b> shown on a Roman sarcophagus, dated 210-220 CE.            <\/div>\n        \n                    <div class=\"chmurka\">\n                Creative Commons Attribution license - On the same conditions 3.0.            <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacchus was the Roman god of wild nature and wine &#8211; he represented not only its intoxicating influence but also the beneficent one. He was even, according to some myths, a chthonic deity. Dionysus was adopted by the Romans like many other Greek deities. Bacchus was identified with the agricultural god Liber (&#8220;the free one&#8221;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":85573,"parent":54765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84769","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84769\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}