Bacchic

• “I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.”

  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

• “It is certainly difficult to play, not only for the pianist and orchestra – who must continually wrestle with dense, muddy scoring – but also the piano itself, which barely survived the final cadenza, the muscular Denis Matsuev's assault on the instrument egged on by Bacchic interjections from woodwind and brass.”

  The Guardian: Matsuev/LSO/Gergiev

• “To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level.”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “It is a product of classical studies of the ancient Phrygian terrorist cult of Satan-Dionysos, the model for the Roman Bacchic cults of similar characteristics.”

  Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation

• “The “rock rythm” itself is copied from the old Dionysian-Bacchic cults.”

  Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation

• “Any dolt can see the connection between the mother-smothered Amis and the later unstoppable tit-man who was also a slave to Bacchic overindulgence.”

  One Fraught Englishman

• “On the use of Dionysus as a political symbol in the Hellenistic world, see Walter Burkert, Bacchic Teletai in the Hellenistic Age, in Thomas H. Carpenter and Christopher A. Faraone, eds., Masks of Dionysus Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 25975, esp. pp.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Spartacus War

• “No doubt the Government will have engraved on the front of the legislative hall, for the instruction of the legislator and the edification of the people, this Latin verse, which a priest of Boulogne had written over the door to his cellar, as a warning to his Bacchic zeal:”

  Freedom Movement Celebrity Birthday Feast (this year with big round numbers)

• “Ah! ye goddesses terrific, swiftly careering on outspread pinions, whose lot it is 'mid tears and groans to hold revel not with Bacchic rites; ye avenging spirits swarthy-hued, that dart along the spacious firmament, exacting a penalty for blood, a penalty for murder, to you I make my suppliant prayer: suffer the son of Agamemnon to forget his wild whirling frenzy!”

  Orestes

• “Delighted with this liquor of the Bacchic god, he fain would go a-reveling with his brethren.”

  The Cyclops

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