Dionysius
Date Submitted: 11/08/2004 12:57:10
Category: / Social Sciences / Education
Length: 3 pages (697 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Education
Length: 3 pages (697 words)
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…of the festivities was the sparagmos. During this part of the ceremony, a live goat would be disemboweled, and the partygoers would feast upon its raw flesh. In Rome, Dionysus was known as Bacchus, and his festival, or Bacchanalia, was also extremely immoral, even by Rome's standards. So
immoral in fact, that the Roman Senate in 186 B.C., made a law forbidding the celebration of the Bacchanalia. The law apparently didn't stop those fun-loving Romans,
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