How to Use Dionysus in a Sentence

Dionysus

noun

• Yeah, in the books, Dionysus sends him back to the Underworld.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Jan. 2026
• Hayek arrived wearing a Gucci leopard-print silk dress, paired with a Gucci Dionysus handbag and platform shoes.
  — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Thus, the more Pentheus attempts to contain Dionysus, disguised as a foreign holy man, the more vehement and destructive the god becomes.
  — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2026
• The teens are captured by the other demigods and brought before the acting camp director, Dionysus, following Tantalus’ death.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Jason Mantzoukas portrays Dionysus, god of wine and Director of Camp Halfblood, where the demigods shelter and learn to fight.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
• Thus, Dionysus drives Pentheus insane, lures him to the mountains, and the women of Thebes, in a state of Dionysian frenzy and led by Agave herself, tear Pentheus apart.
  — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2026
• The Bacchae tells the story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, their rejection of the cult of Dionysus, and their subsequent punishment.
  — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2026
• This latter interpretation recalls Persephone’s yearly return from the underworld or another myth in which a pomegranate sprouts from drops of Dionysus’s blood after his death, heralding his resurrection.
  — Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
• Although the legend of Dionysus—a Greek deity responsible for wine and other pleasurable pursuits—is centuries old, the mythological figure is still influencing modern-day Greece.
  — Shana Clarke, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2023
• The series continues to feature cameos from adult celebrities as the gods, including reappearances from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hermes and Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
• In The Bacchae, Dionysus becomes violent only because his existence has been denied and his followers persecuted, and his maenads similarly become destructive only when pursued.
  — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2026
• Eventually, Mary retreated to her family’s ancestral house in Kerala, presided over by an almost blind grandmother, a censorious great-aunt, and a Rhodes Scholar uncle who held forth at dinner about Dionysus.
  — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
• Throughout many revealing conversations, the braggadocious zeal of Poseidon and Zeus, the sexy aloofness of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and the sniveling bitchery of Hermes and Hypnos were endearing, but all gave way to flawed people who grew deeply over time.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
• The student-run Yale Summer Cabaret opens its summer season dance/theater adaptation by TImothy Hartel of Euripides’ ever-popular tragedy about the god Dionysus descending to Earth and causing all kinds of trouble.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
• The great arc of stars in the constellation Corona Borealis represents the crown of Ariadne in Greek mythology, who, in some tellings, marries the god Dionysus following the defeat of the bull-like minotaur in the labyrinth below the Aegean island of Crete by the demigod Theseus.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2026
• Other recurring guest stars include Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus the leader of Camp Half-Blood, Timothy Simons as Tantalus and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hermes, messenger of the gods.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025