What is the Dionysus Roman form?

Dionysus is the Greek name for the god of wine and debauchery. The Roman name is Bacchus. read more

Bacchus is the Roman name for the Greek god Dionysus. Dionysus was the son of the Greek god Zeus (or Jupiter, to use his Roman equivalent) and a mortal woman named Semele. Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, the grape harvest, ecstasy and madness. read more

Dionysus was variably known with the following epithets: Acratophorus, ("giver of unmixed wine"), at Phigaleia in Arcadia. Acroreites at Sicyon. Adoneus, a rare archaism in Roman literature, a Latinised form of Adonis, used as epithet for Bacchus. Aegobolus ("goat killer") at Potniae, in Boeotia. read more