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- Dionysus pron.: /daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/ dy-ə-NY-səs (Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος, Dionysos) was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500—1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete.
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Etymology
The dio- element has been associated since antiquity with Zeus
(genitive Dios).
The earliest attested form of the name is Mycenaean
Greek di-wo-nu-so, written in Linear
B syllabic script, presumably for /Diwo(h)nūsos/, found
on two tablets at Mycenaean
Pylos and dated to
the 12th or 13th century BC.[16][17]
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