Definitions for bacchanalia
ˌbæk əˈneɪ li ə, -ˈneɪl yəbac·cha·na·li·a

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dionysia, Bacchanalianoun

   an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)

2. orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelrynoun

   a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bacchanalianoun

   A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

2. Bacchanalianoun

   Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy.

3. bacchanalianoun

   A wild, orgiastic party or celebration.

4. Etymology: From Bacchanalia.

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1. Bacchanalia

   The Bacchanalia were unofficial, privately funded popular Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They were almost certainly associated with Rome's native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC. Like all mystery religions of the ancient world, very little is known of their rites. They seem to have been popular and well-organised throughout the central and southern Italian peninsula.Livy, writing some 200 years after the event, offers a scandalized and extremely colourful account of the Bacchanalia, with frenzied rites, sexually violent initiations of both sexes, all ages and all social classes; he represents the cult as a murderous instrument of conspiracy against the state. Livy claims that seven thousand cult leaders and followers were arrested, and that most were executed. Livy believed the Bacchanalia scandal to be one of several indications of Rome's inexorable moral decay. Modern scholars take a skeptical approach to Livy's allegations.The cult was not banned. Senatorial legislation to reform the Bacchanalia in 186 BC attempted to control their size, organisation, and priesthoods, under threat of the death penalty. This may have been motivated less by the kind of lurid and dramatic rumours that Livy describes than by the Senate's determination to assert its civil, moral and religious authority over Rome and its allies, after the prolonged social, political and military crisis of the Second Punic War (218–201 BC). The reformed Bacchanalia rites may have been merged with the Liberalia festival. Bacchus, Liber and Dionysus became virtually interchangeable from the late Republican era (133 BC and onward), and their mystery cults persisted well into the Principate of Roman Imperial era.

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1. bacchanalia

   Bacchanalia refers to a wild, extravagant, and drunken party or celebration, typically associated with excessive indulgence in food, drinks, and revelry. The term originated from the wild and mystic festivals of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and intoxication. It can also refer to the ancient Roman festivals of Bacchus.

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1. Bacchanalia

   a feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus

2. Bacchanalia

   hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler

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1. Bacchanalia

   The bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Greco-Roman god Bacchus, the wine god. The term has since come to describe any form of drunken revelry.

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1. Bacchanalia

   Roman festivals in honour of Bacchus, the god of wine.

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1. • Festival
   • Revelry

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bacchanalia in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bacchanalia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bacchanalia
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bacchanalia
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchanalia
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bacchanalia
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=bacchanalia
7. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=bacchanalia