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... > Classical Mythology and Ancient History > gods ~ classical mythology > gods of the earth and fertility ~ life in mountains and woods > (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber > early life, prime youth of Bacchus > birth of Bacchus: he is born from Jupiter's thigh, where he had been sewn in (possibly by Mercury)

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92L111birth of Bacchus: he is born from Jupiter's thigh, where he had been sewn in (possibly by Mercury)  

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Subject

  • ancient history
  • baby
  • Bacchus
  • birth
  • child
  • classical antiquity
  • earth
  • emerging
  • fertility
  • forest
  • gods
  • history
  • Jupiter
  • mountain
  • mythology
  • thigh
  • youth

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