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Question

What does:

"And whenever a woman wishes to perform an initiation for Dionysos Bacchios in the city"

mean?

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Answer 1

Dionysos the Greek god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He was also known as Bacchus[1] and the frenzy he induces, bakcheia. Bacchus is "manifestly non-Greek," Burkert asserts (1985:163). He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace — as well as the patron deity of agriculture and the theatre. He was also known as the Liberator (Eleutherios), freeing one from one's normal self, by madness, ecstasy, or wine.[2] The divine mission of Dionysus was to mingle the music of the flute and to bring an end to care and worry.[3] There is also an aspect of Dionysus on his relationship to the "cult of the souls", and the scholar Xavier Riu writes that Dionysus presided over communication between the living and the dead.[4]

In Greek mythology Dionysus is made to be the son of Zeus and Semele; other versions of the story contend that he is the son of Zeus and Persephone. He is described as being womanly or "man-womanish".[5]

The name Dionysos is of uncertain significance; its -nysos element may well be non-Greek in origin, but its dio- element has been associated since antiquity with Zeus (genitive Dios). Nysa, for Greek writers, is either the nymph who nursed him, or the mountain where he was attended by several nymphs (the Nysiads), who fed him and made him immortal as directed by Hermes. Or both.[6]

The retinue of Dionysus was called the Thiasus and comprised chiefly Maenads.

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Answer 2

It would help if the information included where this text was found.
According to all I found is in the links below.
It was a very secretive CULT and little is known. The women did have rituals of singing and dancing in the streets at the time of initiations.

Bacchus, or Dionysus in Greek, was the god of wine and of mystic ecstasy.

The cult of Bacchus was a mystery cult, and many elements were disclosed only to initiates, so little is known about the exact content of the cult and the rituals, but they appear to have been very complex. The rituals and celebrations are known under the name Bacchanalia.

The cult originated in Asia Minor, from where it spread through Thrace, Greece and Magna Graecia in S. Italy, where it was widespread. It soon enjoyed high popularity among the Romans, until a point where more conservative parts of the Roman elite saw it as a problem.

The Roman senate banned the cult in 186 BCE and many sanctuaries were destroyed, but the senate was unable to suppress the cult completely. It continued and is testified in art until the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE.

The wall paintings in the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii probably depicts an initiation ritual into the cult of Bacchus. Images of the cult seem to have been common in wall paintings, in mosaics and on sarcophagi.
Myths of Dionysos
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/hansen/myth99di.htm

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