Dionysus
Beginning of paper
Winter squalls are drained out of the sky. The violet season of flowering spring smiles. The black earth glitters under green lawns. Swelling plants pop open with tiny petals. Meadows laugh and suck the morning dew, while the rose unfolds.
The shepherd in the hills happily blows the top notes of hi ....
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.... which great dramatic competitions were conducted. The most important festival, the Greater Dionysia, was held in Athens for five days each spring. It was for this celebration that the Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides wrote their great tragedies. Also, after the 5th century BC, was known to the Greeks as Bacchus.
is the son of Zeus and Semele. He is the only god to have a mortal parent. The birth of began when Zeus came to Semele in the night, invisible, felt only as a d ....
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Word count: 1476
Page count: 6 (approximately 250 words per page)
