BACCHUS   6     
Bacchus also has the names   Bromios, Lénaios « god of the wine press», Lyaioe «the one who delivers you from worries», and Dendritès « the protector of bushes».

Bacchus with two Nymphs and Cupid

Bacchus, not finding any more resistance in  Thrace, goes back to Greece in Beotia, his mother's native country.   In Thebes, he incites women to join him in his orgies.


Q1 : Where did these orgies take place?

a   on Mount Olympus
b   on Mount  Cithéron
c   on Mount  Nysa

The festivities where all the people, especially the women, are taken over by a mystical delirium and run through the countryside with ritualistic cries, displease Pentheus, king of Thebes, successor of Cadmos.

Q2 : What are these festivities called?

a   the Bacchanals
b   the Feznoz
c   the jousts

The king arrests Bacchus and all his Menades but he loses his mind and instead of chaining up Baccus, he chains up a bull.

Q3 : Who wrote the " Bacchantes" which speak of the god of wine and the creative delirium?

a  Ovid
b  Homer
c  Euripides


Bacchanal in front of a Statue of Pan

Q4 : Who painted this work representing a  bacchanal ?

a  Jan Bruegel
b   Hendrick van Balen
c   Nicolas Poussin

In Orchomenia
, the three daughters of king Minyas, refuse to participate to the orgies...

Q5 :  What are the names of the daughters of king Minyas?

a   Penthésilée, Hippolyté and Marpessa
b  Alcathoé, Leucippé et Arsippé
c   Mégère, Alecto et Tisiphone

Q6 : Under what disguise does Bacchus hide to convince the better?

a   he disguises himself as a bird
b   he disguises himself as a bull
c   he disguises himself as a young girl




Q7 : Who painted these nymphs and this satyr in 1873?

a  Adolphe William Bouguereau
b  Frank Bicknell
c  Henry Ossawa Tanner

Bacchus in front of the refusal of the three girls changes into a lion, a bull, and a panther and makes them go mad.

Q8 : What does Mercury transform them into?

a   butterflies
b   birds
c   trees

The  Menades or the  Bacchantes are also called the  Thyiades.

Q9 : What does  Thyiade mean ?

a   crazy
b   mistresses
c   inspired 


Bacchus and Ceres with the Nymphs and the Satyrs

Q10 : Who painted this work in 1640? 

a   Eurilda France
b   Sébastien Bourdon
c   Thomas Anshutz






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