relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id
17,ENT_DIONYSUS,identified_with,ENT_ZAGREUS,high,Zagreus belongs to Orphic/Dionysian theological traditions.,SRC_THEOI_GODS,reviewed,
1295,ENT_DIONYSUS,identified_with,ENT_IACCHUS,medium,Iacchus identified with Dionysus in some ancient sources linking Eleusinian and Dionysian mysteries.,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,reviewed,
1414,ENT_DIONYSUS,received_as,ENT_CHR_DEMONS,medium,"Justin Martyr (1 Apol. 25, 54) explicitly names Dionysus as a demon-promoted deity and argues that the myth of the dying-and-rising Dionysus was a demonic anticipatory counterfeit of the resurrection — Satan foreknew the resurrection and seeded Dionysus mythology to make it seem derivative. Augustine (City of God VII.21) treats Bacchus/Dionysus's cult as morally ruinous. The Dionysus–Christ typology (dying-rising, wine, thyrsos–cross) was a primary concern of patristic apologists.",SRC_JUSTIN_MARTYR_APOLOGIES,reviewed,PER_PATRISTIC
1527,ENT_DIONYSUS,reception_of,ENT_ARA_DUSHARA,medium,Dionysus as the Greek identification for the Nabataean Dushara; Epiphanius (Panarion 51.22) makes the identification explicit; wine-vine association and mountain cult are the functional basis.,SRC_HEALEY_NABATAEAN_RELIGION,reviewed,PER_GRK_HELLENISTIC
2044,ENT_DIONYSUS,patron_of,ENT_MAENADS,high,Euripides Bacchae passim; Hesiod Works and Days: the Maenads (Bacchants) are the ecstatic female worshippers of Dionysus who follow him in his retinue.,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,approved,
2045,ENT_DIONYSUS,patron_of,ENT_THYIADS,high,The Thyiads are Athenian women who performed Dionysian rites on Parnassus; closely related to or identical with the Maenads as devotees of Dionysus.,SRC_THEOI_DAIMONES,approved,
2047,ENT_DIONYSUS,patron_of,ENT_SATYRS,high,"The Satyrs are the rustic half-animal companions of Dionysus, constant members of his thiasos (retinue); attested across the lyric and dramatic tradition.",SRC_THEOI_DAIMONES,approved,
2048,ENT_DIONYSUS,patron_of,ENT_SILENUS,high,"Pseudo-Apollodorus Library 2.5.4 (context): Silenus was the oldest and wisest of the Satyrs, foster-father and constant companion of Dionysus.",SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,approved,
2054,ENT_DIONYSUS,paired_with,ENT_ARIADNE,high,Hesiod Theogony 947-949: Dionysus chose Ariadne as his wife after Theseus abandoned her on Naxos; she was made his flourishing consort.,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,approved,
2154,ENT_DIONYSUS,patron_of,ENT_MANIA,high,Mania (Madness) is one of the forms of divine madness associated with Dionysiac possession; the god is patron of the ecstatic mania that grips his devotees.,SRC_THEOI_DAIMONES,approved,