Dionysus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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DIONYSUS di ni s s, in Greek religion and mythology, god of fertility...important gods of the Greeks and was associated...in origin a Thracian deity. According to the...at the festivals of Dionysus developed the dithyramb and ultimately Greek drama. See M. Nilsson...