Bacchus Bifrons, with two heads facing in opposite
Bacchus Bifrons, with two heads facing in opposite directions, wearing vine leaves and grapes. Roman god of fertility, celebration, ritual, wine and intoxication. Dionysus in Greek mythology. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor's Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as FavissE utriusque antiquitatis tam RomanE quam GrEcE in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716
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