(Rome, Italy)]] Dionysus or Dionysos (in Greek, ???????? or ????????; associated with Roman Liber), 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 BacchusIn Greek "both votary and god are called Bacchus." (Burkert, Greek Religion 1985:162, noting, for the initiate, Euripides, Bacchantes.491, for the god, who alone is Dionysus, Sophocles Oedipus the King.211 and Euripides Hippolytus.560. and the frenzy he induces, bakcheia. Bacchus is "manifestly non-Greek," Burkert asserts (1985:163). He is 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.Sutton, p.2, mentions Dionysus as The Liberator in relation to

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