Bromius

Bromius

Bromius is the Roman god of wine. Bromius was used as an epithet of Dionysos/Bacchus. It signifies "noisy" or "boisterous", from Polytonic|βρεμειν, to roar.According to Richard Buxton, Bromius (Bromios) is another name for a fundamental divine figure that precedes Ouranus and Night in Orphic myth. This alternative view to Hesiod was discovered by a fragmentary papyrus discovered in Derveni, Macedonia, in 1962, which is referred to as The Derveni papyrus.

----Bromios is also one of the sons of Aegyptus and Caliadne. He married Erato, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo. She murdered him on their wedding night.


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