1) Ancient Roman festival 2) Dionysia 3) Drinking bash 4) Festival 5) Fete
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1) Carousal 2) Debauch 3) Debauchery 4) Dionysia 5) Drunkenness 6) Orgies 7) Orgy
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The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They seem to have been popular, and well-organised, throughout the central and southern Italian peninsula. They were almost certainly associated with Rome`s native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC but like all....
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• (n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. • (n. pl.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
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in Greco-Roman religion, any of the several festivals of Bacchus (Dionysus), the wine god. They probably originated as rites of fertility gods. The ... [12 related articles]
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Orgiastic rites of the Roman god Bacchus, introduced in Rome during the 2nd century BC. Originally attended only by women on three days of the year, they later admitted men and were celebrated five...
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Bac`cha·na'li·a (-nā'lĭ*ȧ)
noun plural [ Latin
Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the plural
Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, from
Bacchus the god of wine, Greek
Ba`kchos .]
1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacch...
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Bacchanalia were feasts held in honour of Bacchus and characterized by licentiousness and revelry celebrated in ancient Athens. In the processions were bands of Bacchantes of both sexes, who, inspired by real or feigned intoxication, wandered about rioting and dancing. They were clothed in fawn-skins, crowned with ivy, and bore in their hands thyrs...
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[Hellenic mythology] (also Dionysia) Any of several festivals of Dionysus, the wine god. Suppressed by the Roman senate in 186 BC. Bacchic cults included oaths of loyalty, organized funding, property and membership. In Greece, only women were admitted; in Rome, both were admitted and the festivities were held more often.
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Bacchanalia (singular and plural) 1. The ancient Roman festival in honor of Bacchus. 2. When not capitalized, bacchanalia, refers to a riotous, boisterous, or drunken festivity; revel (boisterous festivity or celebration).
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Translations for „Bacchanalia“ Become a Premium Member today! Exuberant celebrations with excessive consumption of wine in ancient Rome, which corresponded to the Greek Dionysia. See under Bacchus and Dionysus.
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(Latin) three-day wild festival held originally only by women in honor of the god Bacchus; eventually men were also allowed at the festival; the Bacchanalia was banned, except when explicitly allowed, by the Senate in 186 BCE by means of the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus.
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