bacchic mysteries造句

• Most modern scholarship agrees that Dionysiac or Bacchic mystery cults had been practiced in Roman Italy for several decades before 186, and were considered acceptable by Roman authorities until this abrupt " discovery " and rapid suppression.
• In Livy's account, the new Bacchic mysteries were originally restricted to women and held only three times a year; but were corrupted by the Etruscan-Greek version, and thereafter drunken men and women of all ages and social classes cavorted in a sexual free-for-all five times a month.
• There is no evidence of a complex hierarchy in the Bacchic Mysteries of Rome, which seem to have been presided over by a " Domina " and " Dominus " ( priestess and priest ), so it is possible that only the Athenian form of the Mysteries and the Orphic religion had this structure.