Dionysus (The Early Years) Resources

This 2007 TV movie rocks out the opera by Handel based on the tragedy of Semele.

Famous director, Ingmar Bergman, directs this film based on Euripides' The Bacchae.

Click here to get the deets on a 2002 movie version of The Bacchae.

Yet another movie version of Euripides' play.

The NY Times tells you what it thinks about the National Theatre of Scotland's production of The Bacchae.

Check this announcement for a 2009 free production of The Bacchae by the Public Theatre in Central Park.

You can watch the English National Opera's entire performance of Handel's Semele here. (Hey, give it a shot!)

This trailer for the National Theatre of Scotland's production of The Bacchae is pretty dope.

You look like you have three hours to kill. Why not click here to listen Handel's epic opera, Semele?

Eyes too tired to read the myth? Just lay back and listen to this recording of The Bacchae.

You can listen to all of Ovid's famous poem, including the parts with Dionysus here.

Semele is all like, "Dude, Zeus that's what you look like?!"

Poor Semele just can't deal when Zeus's lightning fills the room.

Zeus may not be appearing to Semele as lightning in this picture, but she still looks scared to death.

This sarcophagus shows a detailed scene of Dionysus's birth. Was this guy hoping for a little rebirth perhaps?

This piece of glassware might just be depicting the only instance when it might be okay to give alcohol to a kid—little Dionysus is the future god of wine after all. Looks like this satyr was a forward thinker.

You can totally see why Dionysus turned out the way he did, with Silenus the satyr as his role model.

Especially when the parade is in their honor.