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London: British Museum Press,. Very Good/Very Good. 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0714122424 Dust jacket complete, unclipped price on flap. Original black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Colour plates. 166 pages clean and tight. This is the life story of the wine god Bacchus-seducer, magician, and merrymaker-as never told before. Tales of his bizarre birth from a womb fashioned in his father Zeus's thigh led to even stranger stories, passed down through generations of dramatists, poets, storytellers, and historians. Bacchus is best remembered, however, for his gift of wine to humanity. With it he brought not only pleasure but also savagery and death. Pentheus, for example, was torn apart at the hands of his own mother and her fellow Maenads in the midst of a Bacchic frenzy. In this highly enjoyable biography, Andrew Dalby weaves together these and other intriguing episodes from Bacchus's life-from his youth spent on Mount Nysa among nymphs…
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- Author Dalby, Andrew
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- Pages 168
- Publisher British Museum Press, London
- Date October 2003
- ISBN 9780714122427
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