Talk:Dionysus

Animal sacrifice
Per the Bacchanalia summary section in this article (and the Bacchanalia article itself), the very unusual forms, origins and meanings -- these seem to be several -- of animal sacrifice in the cults and myths of Dionysus/Bacchus needs a much more thorough treatment. An editor has just added something on the matter, citing Russell's History of Western Philosophy. That's just a start (addit: having just read the cited source; Russell's account is over-generalised, hovering between Greek and Roman practice; and of course, he was a philosopher, not a historian. Scholarship has moved on since '45. I've removed the addition and interpretation from that section. A more up-to-date, specialist treatment is needed. Haploidavey (talk) 13:00, 1having 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Etymology: dubious link with Demeter and Dione
I've twice deleted a paragraph claiming (a) that the name of Dionysus is related to that of Demeter, and (b) that his name is a combination of the names of Dione and Zeus. This looks like original research; it gives no citations for either claim, both of which are linguistically untenable in my belief and have not been advanced by any scholars I know of. Trecht (talk) 21:43, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Erroneous links
At least two links in the article redirect to articles on geographical locations instead of ancient deities.

So far, I have identified Eleutheros (subsection "Liber and importation to Rome", redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahr_al-Kabir), Nysus (subsection "Second birth", redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%A1#Middle_Ages). There may be more.


 * Delinked both, since neither appears to have an article, and both are redirects for other topics that have articles. If someone writes articles about these mythological figures, they could be placed at those titles.  P Aculeius (talk) 19:55, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Linear B spelling
According to this article, "di-wo-nu-so" is spelled in Linear B; but List of Mycenaean deities uses  for di-wo-nu-so. Moreover, according to Linear B article, stands for "au",  is not yet deciphered, and  for "ko", so that  is equal to "di-au-?-ko", and not "di-wo-nu-so". As far as I can tell, neither citation for (Beekes 2009 and Thomas Palaima) uses, only the transliterated form "di-wo-nu-so". Deiadameian (talk) 13:00, 20 April 2022 (UTC)