The Outline of Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch's whole mythic world — the gods of Olympus, King Arthur's Round Table, the Mabinogeon, Beowulf and the paladins of Charlemagne — told as stories, the way 1913 read them.

Bacchus

3 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Bacchus

BACCHUS was the son of Jupiter and Semele. Juno, to gratify her resentment against Semele, contrived a plan for her destruction. Assuming…

Bacchus: Pentheus

Pentheus here exclaimed, "We have wasted time enough on this silly story. Take him away and have him executed without delay." Acetes was…

Bacchus: Circe

So the worship of Bacchus was established in Greece. There is an allusion to the story of Bacchus and the mariners in Milton's "Comus," at…

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