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Most common depiction of Dionysus: A handsome young man with impressive hair and a wreath of ivy on his head. IN his hand he was holding a "thyrsos", which was a light staff wrapped with leaves of ivy and a pine cone on its top.

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Midas& Bacchus, painting by Nicolas Poussin(1630). Neue Pinakothek in Munich  Germany 
Bacchus, painting by Caravaggio,1593. Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy Dionysus riding a panther. Mosaic at the Archaeological Museum of Pella in Macedonia, Greece
Statue of Dionysos. Museum of Dion,  Northern Greece Dionysus at sea, with dolphins sporting about the ship. 530 B.C. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich Germany Statue of Dionysus in colossal marble. Certain rituals must have take place around it. 1st ecntury B.C. Acropolis Museum of Athens, Greece Statue of Dionysus in Delos, Greece Statue of the Greek god Hermes by Praxiteles, holding the infant Dionysus in his hand.Around 400 B.C. Museum of Olympia, Greece
Athenian youths greeting Dionysus. Amphora of ca 540 BC. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany

Dionysus, the God of Wine and Joy

Dionysus, the God of Wine and Joy




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