thyrsus

How To Use thyrsus In A Sentence

• The thyrsus was a long staff, carried by Bacchus, and by the Satyrs and Bacchanalians engaged in the worship of the God of the grape. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
• Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone. Pan and Satyrs
• Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof. The Phoenissae
• Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof. The Phoenissae
• Neither celebration had anything in common with the wild orgies of the Bacchae, but women employed maenadic ritual equipment like the thyrsus and crowns of ivy in polis festivals.
• His symbols are the phallus, the thyrsus, and the bull.
• The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .
• Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
• He is dressed a maenad, with a long linen dress covered by a fawnskin, a thyrsus in his hand, a long blond wing bound with a ribbon on his head.
• As she worshipped the god she typically held a thyrsus, a giant fennel staff topped with a pinecone. The Spartacus War