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  1. Festivals of the god Dionysus (Bacchus)
  2. celebrated in ancient Greece, especially in
  3. Athens. They included the lesser Dionysia in
  4. Dec, chiefly a rural festival, and the
  5. greater Dionysia, at the end of Mar, when new
  6. plays were performed.
  7.