BACCHUS   01     
Bacchus is the god of   wine, vine,  vegetation,  dance and also of the natural pleasures of the life. He is sometimes named Liber because the god of the wine delivers the spirit from any concern.


Q1 : What is the Greek equivalent of Bacchus?

a  Amphitrite
b  Polyphème
c  Dionysos


The mother, pregnant with  Bacchus, pushed by jealous Hera, wants to admire the divine spark of her lover in all his splendor and will undergo a spell from Hera. Her lover who inopportunely promised the future mother of Bacchus to grant all her wishes, is forced to reveal himself. Indeed, this one is unable to bear the sight of the lightning which surrounds her lover. She is stricken down and her body will disappear.

Q2 : Who is Bacchus' mother ?

a  Acis
b  Galatée
c  Sémélé

The father of Bacchus, to save baby Dionysos, who was only with the sixth month, withdraws him from the womb of his mother.


Q3 : Who is Bacchus' father?

a  Achille
b  Zeus
c  Atlas



Q4 : Who painted this work representing this event?

a   Gustave Courbet
b   Gustave Moreau
c   Géricault

The father of Bacchus, to withdraw Bacchus from the anger of Hera  hides the child in his thigh for three months, until his birth from where his nickname: the one who was born twice


Q5 : What is the expression which came from this story?

a   prendre ses jambes à son cou (to run like a bat out of hell)
b   la tête et la jambe (an arm and a leg)
c   sortir de la cuisse de Jupiter (to come out of nowhere)

The child is then entrusted to Hermes who takes it to  king of Orchomene and his wife, his new adoptive parents, and  recommends them to raise it in the district of the women, disguised as a small girl to escape  the jealousy of Hera.


Q6 : What were the names of the adoptive parents of  Bacchus?

a   Ajax and Iris
b   Argos and Lo
c   Athamas and Ino

Hera always wants the death of Bacchus, fruit of the adultery love of her husband. The years pass, but the fate of Hera follows Bacchus who strikes his adoptive parents with madness.


Q7 : What does Bacchus' father change him into one more time to save his life again?

a  a vine
b  a baby goat
c  a rock



His father transports Bacchus far from Greece, in the country called Nysa. He had there a happy childhood in  nature..


Q8 : Which beings, among which he lives, make him discover vineyard and the art of making wine?

a  the nymphs
b  the fairies
c  the  amazons

Q9 : What was the name of the Nymphs of the Mountains?

a   Hamadryades
b   Dryades
c   the Oréades



Q10 : Who painted this work representing Bacchus as a child?

a  Franz von Stuck
b  Laurent de La Hyre
c  François Boucher






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