who is dionysus in greek mythology
Dionysus (/daÉª.ÉËnaÉªsÉs/ ; Greek: Î´Î¹ÏÎ½ÏÏÎ¿Ï, Dionysos) is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology.e is a god of epiphany, the god that comes, and his foreignness as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. He is a major, popular figure of Greek mythology and religion, and is included in some lists of the twelve Olympians. Dionysus was the last god to be accepted into Mt. Olympus.