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A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF DIONYSOS
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Pre AD 1000 item# 791377
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Biblical Artifacts
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$13500...Clearance Sale Price $9500
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Dionysos (Latin: Bacchus or Liber) was the god of wine. Consequently he was seen as the personification of the life force of the vine and vegetation and the earth's fertiltiy. He was a volatile god whose rites were celebrated in an ecstatic and orgiastic fashion. His female devotees were the Maenads (Bacchantes) and their drunken and lascivious male counterparts were the Satyrs (Fauns). Drunken old Silenos was also a member of his retinue. No where in ancient literature is the passion and fu ...click for details
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