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In Ancient Greece a thyrsus (/ ˈ θ ɜː r s ə s /) or thyrsos (/ ˈ θ ɜːr s ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: θύρσος) was a wand or staff of giant fennel (Ferula communis) covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and topped with a pine cone, artichoke, fennel, or by a bunch of vine-leaves and grapes or ivy ...
Thyrsus, in Greek religion, staff carried by Dionysus, the wine god, and his votaries (Bacchae, Maenads). In early Greek art the Bacchae were usually depicted as holding branches of vine or ivy, but after 530 bc the staff to which the name thyrsus properly applied began to be shown as a stalk of.
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Thyrsi, from a Greek vase. (Hamilton.) appears most commonly to form the head of the thyrsus. The pinecone-headed thyrsus is held by Dionysos on an Attic terracotta of early style figured in Baumeister, Denskm., art. Dionysos, fig. 481, and is seen in the hands of Dionysos and a Satyr on an amphora of good style figured ib., art.
Ancient Pinecone Magic and Symbolism. The thyrsus, staff of Dionysus, Greek god of wine and symbol of fertility, prosperity and immortality. Images of pinecones, sacred eyes and not least, the thyrsus, the ancient Greek magic wand, have been associated with the pineal gland (named after the pinecone), since ancient times and pop up in cultures ...
Dionysus’s Enigmatic Thyrsus. Edward Olszewski. D ionysus is often depicted in Greek carvings and vase paintings as holding a staff, or thyrsus (θύρσος), which serves as his attribute as well as his symbol in that it is used to identify his female followers, the Maenads (Figure 1).
ment of the thyrsus continued in later Greek art, with the emergence in 4 Dodds discusses the meaning of ivy for Dionysus, but without considering the alle-gorical trope of binding found in the later literature; Dodds, Euripides' " Bacchae ," 74, n. 81. 5 Kalke, "Making of Thyrsus," 409. Dodds cites von Papen for the transformation of
Dionysus is often depicted in Greek carvings and vase paintings as holding a staff, or thyrsus (θύρσος), which serves as his attri-bute as well as his symbol in that it is used to identify his female followers, the Maenads (Figure 1).
