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c. 1350 BCEFirst evidence of a cult to Dionysos in Mycenaean culture.
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700 BCE - 600 BCETemples are built in honour of Apollo, Demeter and Dionysos on the island of Naxos.
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600 BCE - 550 BCEThe Dionysia becomes a major Athenian festival in honour of Dionysos.
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600 BCE - 300 BCEDionysos appears on the coins of Naxos, Mende and various other Greek city states.
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447 BCE - 432 BCEThe east pediment of the Parthenon includes a reclining statue of Dionysos.
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c. 405 BCEEuripides in The Bacchai has Dionysos tell us how the tympanon was invented by him and his Mother Goddess, Rhea.
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c. 330 BCEDionysos is represented as an infant in the arm of the Hermes of Praxiteles statue.
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c. 150 CE - c. 200 CEA small temple dedicated to Dionysos is built at Dion.
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c. 400 CENonnus writes the Dionysiaca, which tells the life of Dionysos. At 48 books and 20,426 lines it is the longest surviving poem from Greco-Roman antiquity.