description: Bacchus is best remembered for his gift to humanity of wine. With it he brought pleasure, but also savagery and death. Intriguing episodes drawn from an astonising range of sources, including obscure and fragmentary records detailing the songs chanted by initiates at their secret rites, this book brings Bacchus to life as never before.
language: English
title: The Story of Bacchus
titlecomplete: The Story of Bacchus
characters: Bacchus (god)
genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction, Mythology
ratings_count: 41
publisher: British Museum Press