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 * Most of these sources, although different, explain a lot of the same things - most in different ways and each having different information, but these sources focus on the same aspects because there is not much known about Roman mystery cults.

Annotated Bibliography:

1.     Walsh, P. G. "Making a Drama out of a Crisis: Livy on the Bacchanalia." Greece & Rome 43, no. 2 (1996): 188-203. Accessed February 6, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/643095.

- With this article I will be using page 189 to explain what people took part in the bacchanalia and where it took part, firstly in Greece. Pages 190-191(~) will aid me in explaining the role of Dionysus to the Romans then look into why and how the Bacchanalia moved to Rome. It will also allow me to explain the festival practices.

2.     Gildenhard, Ingo, and Andrew Zissos. "The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture." In Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733: Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions, 65-68. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016. Accessed February 3, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1fzhh5b.10.

- Pages 65-67 will dwell into a deeper understand of the intervention of the Roman senators and the cult of Bacchus. Gildenhard and Zisso also provides an understanding to why the Senate got involved. This article also follows the view of Ovid rather than Livy. What will really help this article is that there is a small mention of cult of Liber, I will be expanding that information to why and how this occurred with this article. Also, how the practice of the Bacchanalia affected the Senates view on society

3.     Mathisen, Ralph W, Ralph W Mathisen, and Ralph W Mathisen. 2019. Ancient Roman Civilization. New York: Oxford University Press.

4.     Euripides, The Bacchae

- The Bacchae is a primary source written by Euripides, this will help explain the history and origins of the Bacchus followers, which evolves into the Bacchanalia.

5.     Livy and the Bacchanalia, Dwayne Meisner http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.490.9424&rep=rep1&type=pdf

- This source went into deeper investigating about what occurring during the investigation the Roman senate did on the bacchanalia and how the god Dionysus was present during the ritual. This source also showed me knew sources that have different point of views on the Bacchanalia.

6.     Petersen, Lauren Hackworth. "INTRODUCTION: PEOPLE, PLACES, AND RITUALS IN THE RELIGIONS OF ROME." Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 56/57 (2011): 3-14. Accessed February 6, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/24616434.

- The author explains the views of four authors on page 4 of this source, in the first subtopic Rituals: Words and Images, focuses mainly on rituals in Rome. This section with be a good sub-section on the Wikipedia page by explaining how and what rituals mean to the Roman people and how represented on gravestones.