When and from where did Dionysus's worship came to Greece??

Question

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Answer 1

Dionysus, also commonly known by his Roman name Bacchus, appears to be a god who has two distinct origins. On the one hand, Dionysus was the god of wine, agriculture, and fertility of nature, who is also the patron god of the Greek stage. On the other hand, Dionysus also represents the outstanding features of mystery religions, such as those practiced at Eleusis: ecstasy, personal delivery from the daily world through physical or spiritual intoxication, and initiation into secret rites. Scholars have long suspected that the god known as Dionysus is in fact a fusion of a local Greek nature god, and another more potent god imported rather late in Greek pre-history from Phrygia (the central area of modern day Turkey) or Thrace.

Answer 2

His cult is very old. The name Dionysos is found in Mycenaean tablets of the 15th century B.C. This was the indigenous Greek wine god.

The cult of Sabazius, on the other hand, was introduced much later from Phrygia in the East. This god was identified wholesale with Dionysos, but his cult differed in that it was included the wild bacchanalia, or orgies. There are many myths which recount the resistance this cult received. Its hard to give a date -- well before Homer and Hesiod at least, since the bacchanal myths featuring Pentheus and Lycurgus were current in that era.

Answer 3

Dionysus is the youngest of the 12 great Olympians. The son of Zeus and Semele. Therefore he takes his place in the pantheon at a very early date.