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Dionysos
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English
Proper noun
Dionysoi
en Dionysus.
en Jane Ellis Harrison Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion 1908 The rival festivals of Dionysos were in mid-winter.
en Carl Kerényi w:Ralph Manheim Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life Bollingen Series LXV Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 1976 1996 383 https://archive.org/details/dionysos00karl/page/383/mode/1up 0-691-02915-6 In an ancient scholarly compendium of writings on Dionysos, Diodorus Siculus wrote: “He seems to be dual in form because there are two Dionysoi: the bearded Dionysos of the old times, since the ancients wore beards, and the younger, beautiful and exuberant Dionysos, a youth.”
en w:Dietrich von Bothmer The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B.C. Athens Malibu, Calif. The J. Paul Getty Museum; New York, N.Y.; London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. 1985 132 https://archive.org/details/amasispainterhis0000vonb/page/132/mode/1up 1 0-89236-086-0 As for the two Dionysoi under the handles, the conceit of putting figures, sometimes on a smaller scale, under the handles, is not unique:
en w:Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae !V, 1 (Herakles–Kenchrias) Zürich; München [Munich] Artemis Verlag 1990 155 https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20V-1%20Herakles-Kenchrias/page/n94/mode/1up 1 3 7608 8751 1 Before him Dionysos (with kantharos) and a woman seated facing r.; a seated Athena and a second Dionysos with kantharos, looking round at them. Cf. Athens, NM 9687 (ABV 491, 58) with a seated H., two Dionysoi and a satyr.
en H[enk] S. Versnel Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 173 Leiden; Boston, Mass. Brill 2011 96 https://archive.org/details/copingwithgodswa0000vers/page/96/mode/1up 978 90 04 20490 4 The Athenians, for their part, decided to adopt this god as a κηδεστής, “a relative/son in law.” Comparably, one of the two Dionysoi in the city of Heraea in Arcadia was called polites. Gods as honorary citizens and owners of land and house, that is the ultimate expression of local inclusion in the world of ‘ours’—a “naturalization” in the words of Detienne.
Danish
da:
Etymology
From da grc Διόνυσος.
Pronunciation
da [d̥ioˈnysʌs]
Proper noun
da proper noun
da Dionysus
Finnish
Etymology
From fi la Dionȳsus.
Pronunciation
diony(:)s(:)os
Proper noun
Dionysus Greek god of wine
Declension
Dionyso a 1
French
Alternative forms
fr Dionyse<qq:rare, literary>
Etymology
fr grc Διόνυσος.
Pronunciation
dionysôss
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Dionysos.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>)
Proper noun
m
fr Dionysus