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Greek Mythology > People, Places, & Things > Bakkhus
The god of Wine; Bakkhus was originally called Dionysus.
Bakkhus gave grapes to mortals and is always in the company of nymphs.
Bakkhus was the son of Zeus and Semele; he was born prematurely and sewn into the thigh of Zeus and then reborn on the mountain of Nysa which is (according to the Homeric Hymn) in Phoenicia, near the streams of Aegyptus but Herodotus is more specific in saying that Nysa is in Ethiopia in Upper Egypt, i.e. the southern portion of Egypt
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