What's the difference between bacchus and thyrsus?
Bacchus
Definition:
(n.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whether it is really wise to get food ideas from a man who died when he was 38 – and who, even in his 20s, portrayed himself as ill-looking in his painting the Sick Bacchus – is another question.
(2) Getting Luca Giordano's enormous Sleeping Bacchus from Saint Petersburg to Norfolk was heart stopping to say the least.
(3) By naming a canvas "Bacchus" or "Orpheus" he didn't so much imply a narrative but use the resonance of the name and its residual impact in the viewer's mind to give an extra depth.
(4) In the retrospective exhibition held at Tate Modern in 2008, these luxurious images contrasted starkly with the simpler blood-red Bacchus canvases, painted at the time of the Iraq war, in the following room.
(5) "He said nothing about painting more Bacchus canvases, but later I visited him in Italy, he drove me to his studio, flung open the shutters, and there they were – I was speechless.
(6) They belong in a bedroom, along with the red wine offered by his scantily clad Bacchus.
(7) The Bacchus title relates to a recurring theme in his work: the red is the colour of both blood and wine, an echo of the orgiastic rites of the god's worshippers.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
(9) It's a big silver dish decorated with scenes of satyrs and other worshippers of Bacchus, a good theme for a boozy Roman banquet.
(10) "In the last room we had three of these Bacchus paintings, all then in separate ownership.
(11) Burleigh Brewing HEF, Gold Coast, Queensland The beer scene in Brisbane has really come alive in the past couple of years, driven by a handful of passion-fuelled small bars, such as Archive, The Scratch, Bitter Suite, Kerbside and Tippler’s Tap, alongside a growing number of microbreweries, including Bacchus, Green Beacon and Fortitude.
(12) The west of the state was “doing very badly”, with water storage 31% in the Wimmera region and just 10% in the Werribee and Bacchus Marsh areas.
(13) The puritan inspectors of souls in 17th-century New England deplored even the tentative embrace of Bacchus as "great licentiousness", the faithful "pouring out themselves in all profaneness", but the record doesn't show a falling off of attendance at Boston's 18th-century inns and taverns.
(14) The Roman Stoic Seneca recommends the judicious embrace of Bacchus as a liberation of the mind "from its slavery to cares, emancipates it, invigorates it, and emboldens it for all its undertakings".
(15) "These results suggest that the antiretroviral treatment should be started very early after infection," said Charline Bacchus, lead researcher on the study at the French National Agency for Research on Aids and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS).
(16) There are three large late paintings, Untitled (Bacchus), made in the burst of creativity of his last years, and five bronze sculptures made between 1979 and 1991.
(17) (I appeared on the cover a few times, once as Bacchus and once as Henry VIII.)
Thyrsus
Definition:
(n.) A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.
(n.) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.