A Compendium of the Ancient Gods

Echoes

Dionysus, Fufluns and Liber and Libera

One god under three names, across The Olympian Order, The Etruscan World and The Roman Inheritance.

Dionysus, plate
Dionysus dye-oh-nye-sus The Twice-Born — god of wine and ecstasy The Olympian Order
Fufluns, plate
Fufluns fuf-luns The Etruscan Wine-God — equivalent to Dionysus, with chthonic associations The Etruscan World
Liber and Libera, plate
Liber and Libera li-ber and li-be-ra Italic Wine-and-Vine Deities — Companions of Ceres The Roman Inheritance

Why the sources call them one god

Floor plan

The rooms follow one another in the order their peoples first appear in the written record.

  1. The Cradle of Citiesc. 3400 BCE to 395 CE. 115 works
  2. The Gift of the Nilec. 4000 BCE to 395 CE. 73 works
  3. The Olympian Orderc. 1600 BCE to 750 CE. 152 works
  4. The Persian Worldc. 2000 BCE to 1010 CE. 30 works
  5. The Levantine Borderlandsc. 1200 BCE to 500 CE. 20 works
  6. The Edges of Empirec. 2000 BCE to 1500 CE. 33 works
  7. The Etruscan Worldc. 900 BCE to 750 CE. 22 works
  8. The Roman Inheritancec. 1200 BCE to 500 CE. 58 works
  9. The Northern Inheritancec. 2000 BCE to 1600 CE. 131 works