Facts

God of the wine and vine
At the harvest time there is a festival for Dionysus and Demeter
Maenads are woman made by wine; no temple;wild and uncontrollable;followed Dionysus around
Some of the greatest poetry was written for Dionysus and plays were preformed on his festival day
Pentheus ,Dionysus' cousin, is the king of Thebes tries to stop Maenads; arrests Dionysus
Dionysus suffers, like grape vines are pruned and dead in the winter; Dionysus died with the coming of the winter
He was brought back to life wih the coming of the winter
His death and resurrection gave his worshipers comfort that life did not end with death, but the sole lives on
Dionysus married Ariadne, a princess from Crete, and they had six children