The upper zone consists of conventional foliate ornament, while the lower is a scene of centaurs attacking various wild animals, separated by Bacchic masks.
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According to some myths, Orpheus, regarded as a prophet of Orphic or Bacchic religion, died when he was dismembered by raging Thracian women.
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Some scholars think that customs of the Rosalia were assimilated into Bacchic festivals of the dead by the Roman military, particularly in Macedonia and Thrace.
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In 186 BC the senate, by a decree of which part is preserved ., made all combination for promoting the Bacchic religious rites strictly illegal.
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Telete was associated with nighttime festivities and ritual dances in honor of Dionysus, and has been interpreted as a goddess of initiation into the Bacchic rites.
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Ever since 1986, the last time the University of Washington men won their way into the NCAA tournament, March felt more like window shopping than bacchic madness.
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An angered Dionysus caused Pentheus'mother Ino and Autono? along with all the other women of Thebes, to rush to Mount Cithaeron in a Bacchic frenzy.
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Mythographers claim that the Maenads ( or wild women ) resisted the Bacchic urge and were driven mad, while the Thyiades accepted the Dionysian ecstasy and kept their sanity.
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All the oldest Dionysian rites reflected stages in the wine-production process; only later did the Athenians ( and others ) synchronise the Bacchic festivities with agricultural seasons.
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Although Dionysius suggests that both the war dances and the Bacchic dancing were in imitation of the Greeks, the armed dances had a Roman precedent in the Etruscan custom.
