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A reference to followers of the Roman god Bacchus (also known in Greece as the god Dionysus), the god of fruitfulness, wine, and ecstasy. As he is the god of ecstasy, a bacchanal is an event filled with drunken festivity and debauchery.
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"Midas and Bacchus" by Nicolas Poussin is licensed under Public Domain.
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Douglas Harper
N.d. Bacchanal. Online Etymology Dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bacchanal, accessed October 15, 2014.