Bromius
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Dionysus · Bacchic god · Bacchus · the Bromian god · the god
spoken of as
1 expressionDionysus“Bromius”1 mention
Phoenissae (Greek)
Hail, rock that lights up a double-crested flash of fire above the frenzied heights of Dionysus;
in the texts
Phoenissae
Dionysus, referred to by his cult title Bromius, whose worship and mountain sanctuary are invoked.
At least go seek the Bromian god in his untrodden sanctuary among the Maenads’ hills.
Bromius, for whom I once dressed in the Theban fawn-skin and danced upon the hills in the holy choir of Semele—shall I now offer the gods homage that is not homage?
Hail, rock that lights up a double-crested flash of fire above the frenzied heights of Dionysus;
Cyclops
God of wine and revelry, the divine master of Silenus and the Satyrs, whose absence from their lives constitutes the central deprivation of the play
As for us, henceforth will we be the servants of Bacchus, sharing the voyage of this hero Odysseus.
O Bromius, unnumbered are the toils I bear because of thee, no less now than when I was young and hale;
And I too fain would leave the Cyclops’ lonely land and see king Bromius, ivy-crowned, the god I sorely miss.