Bacchus

Also known as: comforter of mankind · Family: gods · Role: god · First appears: BOOK VI

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Dionysus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Bacchus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Dionysus)

BOOK VI

• with Thetis (Thetis rescued and comforted Bacchus.) “Bacchus himself plunged terror-stricken into the sea, and Thetis took him to her bosom to comfort him”

BOOK XIV

• parent: Semele “Semele became mother to Bacchus the comforter of mankind”
• parent: Jove “Semele became mother to Bacchus the comforter of mankind”

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.