Bacchus

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.17 Thyoneus

  Bacchus (son of Semele/Thyone); here pledged not to start drunken brawls with Mars.

• The Odes §1.18 Bacchus

  The wine-god whose gift loosens care — but in excess breeds violence.

• The Odes §1.18 Euhius

  A cult-name of Bacchus, 'no light god' to the hard-drinking Sithonians.

• The Odes §1.18 Bassareus

  Another cult-title of Bacchus, whose hidden mysteries Horace will not violate.

• The Odes §1.19 son of Theban Semele

  Bacchus, born of Semele at Thebes; named with Venus as a power of renewed desire.

• The Odes §1.27 Bacchus

  The 'modest' wine-god, to be shielded from bloody quarrels.

• The Odes §2.6 fertile Bacchus

  The wine-god, to whom the vineyards of Aulon are dear.

• The Odes §2.11 Euhius

  Bacchus, who 'scatters the gnawing cares.'

• The Odes §2.19 Bacchus

  The wine-god, seen 'teaching songs among remote crags'; the ode is his dithyramb.

• The Odes §3.16 Bacchus

  The wine that does not 'mellow for me in a Laestrygonian jar.'

• The Odes §3.25 Bacchus

  The god of poetic frenzy who sweeps the rapt poet into groves and caves.

• The Epistles §1.19 Bacchus

  God of wine; 'Lyaeus' ('the looser') is the cult-title invoked when wine dissolves care.

• The Epodes §9 Lyaeus

  Bacchus under his title Lyaeus, 'the looser,' the wine-god who dissolves care and fear.