Ivy
object · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
ivy · garlands · ivy branches · ivy crown · ivy-crowned · ivy-plant · wreathed with ivy
in the texts
Bacchae
The plant used to crown and garland worshippers of Dionysus as a mark of devotion.
Come, let me crown your head with ivy;
I have come prepared with this equipment of the god.
and I have covered it all around with the cluster-bearing leaf of the vine.
Hymn 26 To Dionysus
Plant emblem associated with Dionysus's crown and wreathing.
But when the goddesses had brought him up, a god oft hymned, then began he to wander continually through the woody coombes, thickly wreathed with ivy and laurel.
Hymn 7 to Dionysus
A miraculous ivy-plant that twines around the mast during the divine manifestation.
And all at once a vine spread out both ways along the top of the sail with many clusters hanging down from it, and a dark ivy-plant twined about the mast, blossoming with flowers, and with rich berries growing on it;