[1] Epigraph: Philip Mayerson, in Classical Mythology in Literature, Art, and Music. (New York: Wiley, 1971), p. 229.

[2] Epigraph: Arianna Stassinpoulos and Roloff Beny, in Gods of the Greeks (New York: Abrams, 1983), p. 187.

[3] Walter F. Otto. Dionysus: Myth and Cult, trans. and intro. Robert B. Palmer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1965), p. 116.