Bacchus: A Biography

by Andrew Dalby

Book Overview

This is the life story of the wine god Bacchus-seducer, magician, and merrymaker-as never told before. Tales of his bizarre birth from a womb fashioned in his father Zeus's thigh led to even stranger stories, passed down through generations of dramatists, poets, storytellers, and historians. Bacchus is best remembered, however, for his gift of wine to humanity. With it he brought not only pleasure but also savagery and death. Pentheus, for example,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892367423
• ISBN13: 9780892367429
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"