Example sentences for: dionysius

How can you use “dionysius” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its popular attraction is the cave called Orecchio di Dionisio (Dionysius’ Ear), dubbed as such by Caravaggio in 1608 because of its acoustics.

  • This east-coast Corinthian settlement, founded in 734 b.c. , was the most powerful of Magna Graecia’s overseas colonies and, under Dionysius (405–367 b.c. ), a direct rival to Athens.

  • The Dionysian comes from Dionysius, the god of wine and fertility, who was worshipped with drunken orgies in the woods at which nonparticipants were ripped to pieces.

  • The “mysteries” are those depicted in a vast fresco of a young woman’s initiation into the cult of Dionysius of Greek origin.

  • The Rolling Stones, darker, more subterranean, and with a deeper rhythm section, are more in touch with Dionysius.


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