IDOLS OF THE GENTILES BEGINNING OF SPIRITUAL FORNICATION Part 2

Ancient Corinth I: Gods and Goddesses

Traditional descriptions of Graeco-Roman Corinth (and earlier) have stressed the importance of the male deities Poseidon, Apollo, Zeus, Helios (the Sun), Asklepios, Pan, and Dionysos. Commentators devote more text and photographs to these male deities than to female ones. No doubt these gods were important to early Corinthians, but recent scholarship and new excavations have shown that several goddesses were indeed prominent at Corinth through the early Christian era and into earlyByzantine times.

Bacchanalia

The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites dedicated to the Roman god Bacchus (a variant of the Greek Dionysus).

, save their notable incorporation of carnality (through the use of inebriation and sexual license).