Prosecutors said the parties were scenes of "bacchic orgies" and it was "wrong to say the evenings at Arcore were ordinary parties".

I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.

The author of The Great Dionysiak Myth has ably presented the various forms of the Bacchic rites with the same basis and dénouement.