"Dionysia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, and particularly at the great Dionysia, held at the of March and beginning of April, great tragic contests were held, lasting for two days, during which the immense theatre was filled with crowds of eager spectators. A play seldom lasted more than an hour and ...
— Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... feasts of Bacchus. The latter were a kind of preparation for the former, and were celebrated in the open field about autumn. They were named Lenea, from a Greek word(57) that signifies a wine-press. The great feasts were commonly called Dionysia, from one of the names of that god,(58) and were solemnized in the spring within ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin
... young daughter (whom he named Marina, because she was born at sea) to Tarsus, intending to leave her with Cleon, the governor of that city, and his wife Dionysia, thinking, for the good he had done to them at the time of their famine, they would be kind to his little motherless daughter. When Cleon saw Prince Pericles and heard of the great loss which had befallen him he said, "Oh, your sweet queen, that it had pleased Heaven you ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
... difficult to restore Buteo; for not only now is butor a blockhead as well as a bird, but we really cannot know what kind of bird Buteo stood for. We may be sure that Madame Fine was Denise Blanche; for Dionysia Candida can mean nothing else. Let her shade rejoice in the fame which ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... she reminded him of a gay Lesbian with whom he had caroused for a night during the last Dionysia in Alexandria, yet, on closer inspection, the two ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers |
