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Hail to you Julian the Blessed! May you never thirst.
Who and from where are you Dionysus? Since by the true Bacchus, I do not recognize you; I know only the son of Zeus. While he smells like nectar, you smell like a goat. Can it be then that the Celts...
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Hail to you Demetrios Poliorketes! May you never thirst.
Demetrios, the surviving son, had not the height of his father, though he was a tall man, but he had features of rare and astonishing beauty, so that no painter or sculptor ever achieved a likeness of...
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Hail to you Kallistos! May you never thirst.
To the god Dionysos who listens and helps. Kallistos dedicated this. * * * This entry in our series was contributed by Marc from Of Axe and Plough who was recently on a trip to Italy. While...
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Hail to you Friedrich Nietzsche! May you never thirst.
If we add to this horror the ecstatic rapture, which rises up out of the same collapse of the principium individuationis from the innermost depths of human beings, yes, from the innermost depths of...
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Hail to you Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus! May you never thirst.
To good fortune. On behalf of the fortune of the lord, emperor Marcus … Aurelius Antoninus … Augustus Pius Eutychius, on behalf of Julia … Augusta, mother … of the camp, on behalf of Valerius Comazon...
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Hail to you Hadrian! May you never thirst.
With good fortune. Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, son of god Trajan Parthicus, grandson of god Nerva, greatest highpriest (pontifex maximus), with tribunician power for the 18th time,...
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Hail to you Polydeukion! May you never thirst.
From Marathon: Polydeukion to Dionysos, for the sake of piety. For more on Polydeukion, click here. Tagged: dionysos, heroes, may you never thirst
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Hail to you Martino and Pietro! May you never thirst.
Asked why the said synagogue is held, he replies that it derives from the fact that they as a custom were in the habit of adoring a certain idol called Bacchus and Baron and also the Sibyl and the...
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Hail to you Beroê! May you never thirst.
There is a younger legend, that her mother was Kythereia herself, the pilot of human life, who bore her all white to Assyrian Adonis. Now she had completed the nine circles of Selene’s course carrying...
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Hail to you Zoïlus! May you never thirst.
Who are the Psoloeis and who the Oleiae among the Boiotians? They relate that the daughters of Minyas, Leucippê and Arsinoê and Alcathoê, becoming insane, conceived a craving for human flesh, and drew...
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Hail to you Katherine Harris Bradley! May you never thirst.
Edith and I are Maenads now with a “longing for the hills & ecstasy.” Let Frances expect to see me at the midland station with cone-pointed thyrsos & fawn-skin. Tell him I shall walk to...
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Hail to you Jane Ellen Harrison! May you never thirst.
It’s rather dreadful, the whole centre of gravity of the book has shifted. It began as a treatise on Keres with a supplementary notice on Dionysus. It is ending as a screed on Dionysus with an...
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Hail to you Joseph Ennemoser! May you never thirst.
Passing over the many different names given by different nations, as Lysius, Lyaeos, the conductor of souls from and to heaven; Kolonotas, the lord of graves; Demetrius, of the dead; Licritus, the...
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Hail to you Dioscorus of Aphrodito! May you never thirst.
I want always to dance, I want always to play the lyre. I strike up my lyre to praise the solemn festival with my words. The Bacchae have cast a spell on me … When I drink wine, my cares go to sleep....
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Hail to you Ligyris! May you never thirst.
… of Demeter and Kore and Dionysos and Iacchos … brother of Sleep and Echo. I am every season and take thought for all seasons, the inventor of … I created … I was the first to make adyta and...
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Hail to the Ohvoth! May you never thirst.
Ohv, singular; Ohvoth, plural. According to Gesenius, this word is “used of wine bottles” i.e., skins filled with new wine, ready to burst; and he refers to Job xxxii. 19, where Elihu says, ”Behold,...
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Hail to you Arachne! May you never thirst.
The girl was not known for her place of birth, or family, but for her skill. Her father, Idmon of Colophon, dyed the absorbent wool purple, with Phocaean murex. Her mother was dead. She too had been...
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Hail to you Menekles! May you never thirst.
The People and the Council honored through decrees … statues, and gold crowns … Herakleitos Eudemos Demetrios, son of Apollonidas and grandson of Demetrios … of Hierokometes subdivision, the priest...
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Hail to you Ulpius Aelius Pompeianus! May you never thirst.
For good fortune! Decree of the world-wide performers (technitai) gathered around Dionysos and emperor Trajan Hadrian Augustus Caesar, new Dionysos, namely, those who are crowned sacred victors,...
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Hail to you Sosibos, Andriskos and Aglaosthenes! May you never thirst.
Sosibos the Lakedaimonian, by way of proving that the fig-tree is a discovery of Dionysos, says that for that reason the Lakedaimonians even worship Dionysos Sykites (of the Fig). And the Naxians,...
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