This man's mortal mother may have eaten his heart, and he carried a thyrsus tipped with a pinecone from which honey dripped, perhaps given to him by the Titans.
This man's mortal mother may have eaten his heart, and he carried a thyrsus tipped with a pinecone from which honey dripped, perhaps given to him by the Titans. He grew up with the nymphs of Nysa, and returned to Greece after Rhea cured him of his madness. This "twice-born" god had Lycurgus murder his son with an axe when Lycurgus tried to capture the Maenads. Aceotes escaped being turned into a dolphin when his fellow sailors tried to bind this god, whose mother was incinerated after viewing Zeus as proof of his godhood. This son of Demeter or Semele is followed by the satyrs. For 10 points, name this Greek god of wine.
This man's mortal mother may have eaten his heart, and he carried a thyrsus tipped with a pinecone from which honey dripped, perhaps given to him by the Titans.
{Dionysus} [accept {Bacchus} before “Nysa”]