Bakcheios (Epiclesis)
Bakcheios or Bakchios ( Greek Βακχεῖος or Βάκχιος ) is an epithet in Greek mythology , but also an epiclesis of Dionysus .
As an epithet, it has been widely used in poetry since the Homeric hymns and in prose since Herodotus . The spelling Bakchios , however, only occurs in poetry. According to Pausanias, the cult name of Dionysus was Bakcheios in Corinth and Sikyon , but it is also inscribed for Rhodes - and there with its own festival - and Tralleis .
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Bakcheios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 747 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Jessen : Bakchios 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2788 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Homeric Hymns 19:46; Sophocles , King Oedipus 1105; Antigone 154; Euripides , Cyclops 74; Die Bakchen 67. 195, Aristophanes , Die Thesmophoriazusen 988; Orphic Hymns 30.2.
- ↑ Herodotus 4.79, Diodorus 4.5.1
- ↑ Pausanias 2,2,6.
- ↑ Pausanias 2,7,5.
- ↑ CIG 2525 b.
- ↑ CIG 2919.