Editing Dionysus (section)

===Travels and invention of wine===
[[File:Bacchus en Ampelos, Francesco Righetti, 1782.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Bacchus and Ampelos'' by [[Francesco Righetti]] (1782)]]
When Dionysus grew up, he discovered the culture of the vine and the mode of extracting its precious juice, being the first to do so;<ref>Bull, 255</ref> but Hera struck him with madness, and drove him forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth. In [[Phrygia]] the goddess [[Cybele]], better known to the Greeks as Rhea, cured him and taught him her religious rites, and he set out on a progress through Asia teaching the people the cultivation of the vine. The most famous part of his wanderings is his expedition to [[India]], which is said to have lasted several years. According to a legend, when [[Alexander the Great]] reached a city called Nysa near the [[Indus river]], the locals said that their city was founded by Dionysus in the distant past and their city was dedicated to the god Dionysus.<ref>[[Arrian]], ''[[Anabasis of Alexander]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/arrian-anabasis_alexander/1976/pb_LCL269.3.xml 5.1.1–2.2]</ref> These travels took something of the form of military conquests; according to [[Diodorus Siculus]] he conquered the whole world except for Britain and [[Ethiopia]].<ref>Bull, 253</ref>

[[File:Alinari - Bacco e Ampelo.jpg|180px|thumb|right|''Bacchus and Ampelus''. Pre-1865 image of a Renaissance (partly Roman) statue in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.]]
Another myth according to [[Nonnus]] involves [[Ampelos|Ampelus]], a [[satyr]], who was loved by Dionysus. As related by [[Ovid]], Ampelus became the constellation ''Vindemitor'', or the "grape-gatherer":<ref>Ovid, ''Fasti'', iii. 407 ff. (James G. Frazer, translator).</ref> <blockquote><small>... not so will the Grape-gatherer escape thee. The origin of that constellation also can be briefly told. 'Tis said that the unshorn Ampelus, son of a nymph and a satyr, was loved by Bacchus on the Ismarian hills. Upon him the god bestowed a vine that trailed from an elm's leafy boughs, and still the vine takes from the boy its name. While he rashly culled the gaudy grapes upon a branch, he tumbled down; Liber bore the lost youth to the stars."</small></blockquote> Another story of Ampelus was related by [[Nonnus]]: in an accident foreseen by Dionysus, the youth was killed while riding a bull maddened by the sting of a gadfly sent by [[Selene]], the goddess of the [[Moon]]. The [[Moirai|Fates]] granted Ampelus a second life as a vine, from which Dionysus squeezed the first wine.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/340/mode/2up 10.175–430], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/358/mode/2up/search/Ampelos 11], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/396/mode/2up/search/Ampelos 12.1–117] {{Harv|Dalby|2005|pp=55–62}}.</ref>