Bacchanalia
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- Note
- The Bacchanalia were unofficial, privately funded popular Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They were almost certainly associated with Rome´s native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC. Like all mystery religions of the ancient world, very little is known of their rites. They seem to have been popular and well-organised throughout the central and southern Italian peninsula.
Livy, writing some 200 years after the event, offers a scandalized and extremely colourful account of the Bacchanalia, with frenzied rites, sexually violent initiations of both sexes, all ages and all social classes; he represents the cult as a murderous instrument of conspiracy against the state. Livy claims that seven thousand cult leaders and followers were arrested, and that most were executed. Livy believed the Bacchanalia scandal to be one of several indications of Rome´s inexorable moral decay. Modern scholars take a skeptical approach to Livy´s allegations.
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Trichterpokal mit drei palmzweighaltenden Kinderbacchanten
Pokal aus farblosem Glas,...
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Image: Potsdam Museum - Forum für Kunst und Geschichte - CC BY-NC-SA -
Trichterpokal mit Putti in ländlicher Umgebung
Pokal aus farblosem Glas,...
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Image: Potsdam Museum - Forum für Kunst und Geschichte - CC BY-NC-SA -
Becher mit Kinderbacchanal
Konischer Becher aus...
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Image: Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Glasmuseum Hentrich - CC BY-NC-SA -
Deckelpokal mit Bacchanal
Deckelpokal aus farblosem,...
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Image: Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Glasmuseum Hentrich - CC BY-NC-SA -
Pokal mit Kinderbacchanal
Pokal aus farblosem,...
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Image: Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Glasmuseum Hentrich - CC BY-NC-SA
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