Dionysus
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Thebes and the Greek world
- Greek
Wine, theatre and the deliberate dissolution of the self. The Greeks treated him as a foreign arrival even though his name too appears in Linear B.
Known for
- ecstatic release
- the origin of drama
- the twice-born
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.