Dionysian Mysteries:
Some Documents

1. The Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii

2. Euripides' Bacchae

3. Livy, History of Rome 39.8--19

4. Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon 2.2--3

5. Pausanias, Description of Greece 6: Elis 2, 26.1--2

6. Rule of the Iobacchoi (Greek inscription of 178 A.D.)

7. Plato, Republic 2.6--7

8. Orphic Hymns

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