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Bacchus: A Biography

Tidings of comfort and joy BACCHUS: A BIOGRAPHY by Andrew Dalby The British Museum Press, L14.99, pp. 166, ISBN 0774722424

He was born to a virgin honoured with the attentions of the most high god. He assumed human form and gathered disciples around him who were derided for their adoration. Having performed a variety of miracles and made a journey to the underworld, he ascended to heaven, where he joined his father, president of the immortals, as the latest manifestation of personified divinity. In some versions of the story he took his mother with him.

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