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List of Gods : "Dionysius" - 4 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
"Bacchanalia"	Greek	Dionysius and the Bacchanalia. Greek
"Damocles' Sword"	Greek	evil foreboded or dreaded. Damocles, the sycophant of Dionysius the elder, of Syracuse, was invited by the tyrant to try the felicity he so much envied. Accordingly he was set down to a sumptuous banquet, but overhead was a sword suspended by a hair. Damocles was afraid to stir, and the banquet was a tantalising torment to him. Related by Cicero
"Dionysius"	Greek	These mysterious rites were, at first, imparted to a few, but afterwards communicated to great numbers, both men and women Greek
King name "Lycaon"	Greek	A son of Pelasgus by Meliboea, the daughter of Oceåñuś, and king of Arcadia. Others call him a son of Pelasgus by Cyllene , and Dionysius of Halicarnåśśus distinguishes between an elder and a younger Lycaon, the former of whom is called a son of Aezeus and father of Deianeira, by whom Pelasgus became the father of the younger Lycaon. Greek

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