Where Do Dionysus Worshippers Come From?
Where Do Dionysus Worshippers Come From? He also had a son with Aphrodite, who became a favorite figure in Roman times – Priapus, the well-endowed, ithyphallic god of male procreative power. Religious worship of Dionysus came to Greece from Asia Minor; perhaps, as Homer intimates, via Thrace. How did Dionysus become the god of wine?