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Athenians wearing masks celebrate the vintage by dancing around a statue of Bacchus and sacrificing a goat to him. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654, after F. Cleyn. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Virgil, Georgics II. 380-384. The ancient Athenians (Theseidae, descendants of Theseus) are sacrificing a goat to Bacchus to celebrate the vintage, the origin of tragic drama. In the left background, women hang effigies on the branches of trees as described in Georgics II. 388-389 ("Et te, Bacche, vocant per carmina laeta, tibique / Oscilla ex alta suspendunt mollia pinu.") Far left, a goat damaging the bark of a tree, the reason for its selection as the victim
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