Mythological Dictionary on Letter #B

Bacchanal or baccanalia or bacchanalian or bacchant or bacchante or bacchic

Dionysus, the Roman Bacchus, was the god of wine, frenzied music and dance, and the irrational. He p...

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts or I fear Greeks even when they bear gifts

The fall of Troy was finally accomplished by a ruse of the Greeks. They constructed an enormous, hol...

Boreal

Boreas, the north wind, has given us this adjective, which refers to the region of the world from wh...

By Jupiter or by Jove or jovian or jovial

Jupiter was the Roman counterpart of Zeus, the supreme god and father. He was a god of the sky and h...