Iacchus

It was called Iacchus, which is the same as Bacchus, the son of Jupiter and Ceres, whose statue was then brought out with great ceremony, crowned with myrtle, and holding a torch in its hand.

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701

                  Over tombs, over graves — that delicate spirits, as in Matthew Arnold's poem, sigh for the silence and the hush, and rise at length in open rebellion against Iacchus and his maenads, who destroy all the quiet of life and who madden innocent blood with their riot.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

We liked his speech, and placed ourselves in hidden ambush among the leafy thickets; they at the appointed time began to wave the thyrsus for their Bacchic rites, calling on Iacchus, the Bromian god, the son of Zeus, in united chorus, and the whole mount and the wild creatures re-echoed their cry; all nature stirred as they rushed on.

The Bacchantes 2008

                  Over tombs, over graves — that delicate spirits, as in Matthew Arnold's poem, sigh for the silence and the hush, and rise at length in open rebellion against Iacchus and his maenads, who destroy all the quiet of life and who madden innocent blood with their riot.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

We liked his speech, and placed ourselves in hidden ambush among the leafy thickets; they at the appointed time began to wave the thyrsus for their Bacchic rites, calling on Iacchus, the Bromian god, the son of Zeus, in united chorus, and the whole mount and the wild creatures re-echoed their cry; all nature stirred as they rushed on.

The Bacchantes 2008

Firstly, it is certainly not later than the beginning of the sixth century, for it makes no mention of Iacchus, and the Dionysiac element was introduced at Eleusis at about that period.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Also upon that couch, flush'd youthfully, breathless Iacchus

Poems and Fragments 2006

Also upon that couch, flush'd youthfully, breathless Iacchus

Poems and Fragments 2006

Dionysus does not rebel against the city; Pentheus falls not because Iacchus is at war with him but because he i.e., Pentheus refuses to acknowledge him at all.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

Iacchus is another name for Dionysus; I'm talking about Euripides' Bacchae here.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005