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
Orchom e n ia , 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