Ampelos (ἄμπελος) is the Ancient Greek for `vine`. In an etiology told by Nonnus, the vine is personified as a beautiful satyr youth, who was loved by Dionysus, and whose death was foreseen by the god. There are two versions of his death and Dionysus’s reaction to it. According to Nonnus, Ampelos was gored to death by a wild bull after..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelos