The Cult of Bacchus

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The Bacchae - the women celebrants of Dionysus - sure knew how to party. But in Greek mythology, they had some unusual talents, including the power to tear a...

09/06/2021

Curator of the Ashmolean's 2019 'Last Supper in Pompeii' exhibition, Dr Paul Roberts, tells us more about Bacchus, the god of wine, and why he was so importa...

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Don't forget to subscribe and leave a like. If you have any more to add, want to correct me, or leave what you thought comment below.Today we're revisiting G...

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Professor Bettany Hughes investigates the story of Bacchus, god of wine, revelry, theatre and excess, travelling to Georgia, Jordan, Greece and Britain to di...

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Around 180BC the patricians launched a witch-hunt against a lower class cult centered on Bacchanalian rites, which had more to do with upper class paranoia t...

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S*x, murder, fake witnesses, and forgeries. All of these things ran rapid through Rome in 186 B.C. In fact scholars think that there may have been a crime wa...

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Top 10 Reasons Ancient Rome was a Perverts ParadiseWe all know Rome was a weird place. After all, people went everywhere in togas, had s*x with their sisters...