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Definition of Dionysiac
1. a. Of or pertaining to Dionysus or to the Dionysia; Bacchic; as, a Dionysiac festival; the Dionysiac theater at Athens.
Definition of Dionysiac
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to Dionysus or to the Dionysia. ¹
2. Adjective. wild and ecstatic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dionysiac
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dionysiac
Literary usage of Dionysiac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Greece by George Grote (1856)
"It was the practice at Athens to convene a public assembly immediately after the
dionysiac festival, for the special purpose of receiving notifications 1 ..."
2. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"14. Statues of Athena. § 15. The Erechtheum. § 16. Monuments in the Asty.
The dionysiac theatre. The Odeum of Pericles. The Areopagus. The Pnyx. ..."
3. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church by Beresford James Kidd (1920)
"A Plea for Christianity under dionysiac Phraseology From Clement of Alexandria [c.
... dionysiac ..."
4. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"of lucky and unlucky days, so widely spread in the old religions.1 Heracleitus
also expresses himself strongly about the shamelessness of the dionysiac ..."
5. A Smaller History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith, Carleton Lewis Brownson (1897)
"The dionysiac Theatre.—The dionysiac theatre'occu- pied the slope at the southeastern
extremity of the Acropolis. The stone seats were firmly fixed upon the ..."
6. The Public and Private Life of the Ancient Greeks by Heinrich Hase (1836)
"dionysiac festivals—Dithyrambic choruses—Origin and progress of ... THE peculiar
and invariable characteristic of all the dionysiac festivals, mentioned at ..."
7. The geography of Herodotus by James Talboys Wheeler (1854)
"At the festival of Osiris a pig slain at every door, and dionysiac orgies
celebrated.—Herodotus's account of Apis.—Begotten on a cow by a Hash of lightning. ..."
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