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Gorgeous Bronze Sculpture Bacchus

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Gorgeous Bronze Sculpture Bacchus
Bacchus Bronze Sculpture, After Encachepe, 19"H x 7 1/2"D x 7 1/2"W 18 lbs. This bronze sculpture was produced using the "Lost Wax" casting method. The"Lost Wax" Cast method is the most precise metal casting technique in existence, ensuring exquisite detail of the original host model which is usually sculpted in clay or wax. This "Lost Wax" casting method is an extremely labor intensive and expensive process, but the end results produce a Heirloom Quality Masterpiece!Bacchus, the name adopted by the Romans and the frenzy he induces,bakkheia. He is the patron deity of agriculture and the theater. He was also known as the Liberator (Eleutherios), freeing one from one's normal self, by madness, ecstasy, or wine.The divine mission of Dionysus was to mingle the music of the aulos and to bring an end to care and worry. Scholars have discussed Dionysus' relationship to the "cult of the souls" and his ability to preside over communication between the living and the dead.In Greek mythology, Dionysus is made out to be a son of Zeus and Semele; other versions of themyth contend that he is a son of Zeus and Persephone. He is described as being womanly or "man-womanish".The name Dionysos is of uncertain significance; its -nysos element may well be non-Greek in origin, but its dio- element has been associated since antiquity with Zeus (genitive Dios). Nysa, for Greek writers, is either the nymph who nursed him, or the mountain where he was attended by several nymphs (the Nysiads), who fed him and made him immortal as directed by Hermes.The retinue of Dionysus was called the thiasus and comprised chiefly of maenads and satyrs.