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Raised in seclusion to protect him from Hera's wrath, Dionysus studied under Silenus and eventually invented wine. Hera found him, however and drove him insane so he wandered the earth bringing the vine and his own madness, along with an entourage of wild Maenads and Satyrs. 

Father of Priapus (by Aphrodite), his main consort was Ariadne, whom he met in Naxus  after she had been abandoned by Theseus. He married her and gave her six children.

It is thought that his role as wine god was superimposed on an older role as beer god (beer was invented before wine) a symbols of which was the pine cone (used in making spruce beer) topped thyrsus that his followers carried.

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