Dear Scott,
See Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 3.62-74 (myths about Dionysus),
e.g. sec. 64:
'He also instructed all men who were pious and cultivated a life of
justice in the knowledge of his rites and initiated them into his
mysteries, and, furthermore, in every place he held great festive
assemblages and celebrated musical contests;14 and, in a word, he composed
the quarrels between the nations and cities and created concord and deep
peace where there had existed civil strifes and wars.'
Diodorus goes on to treat the Greek traditions in the opening of Book IV,
where he notes (sec. 3) that Dionysus conquered the East:
'Then he made a campaign into India, whence he returned to Boeotia in the
third year, bringing with him a notable quantity of booty, and he was the
first man ever to celebrate a triumph seated on an Indian elephant.' Note
that Diodorus deals with Hercules in Book IV, immediately after his
discussion of Bacchus.
Bill Thayer has very kindly put the Loeb edition online at Lacus Curtius:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html
See also Conti, Mythologiae, 5.13.
andrew
Andrew Zurcher
Queens' College
Cambridge CB3 9ET
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