Note 928 — Chapter VIII · DIONYSOS.
Reading edition
Mr A. G. Bather in an interesting article on ‘The Problem of the Bacchae’ (J.H.S. XIV. 1894, p. 263) concludes that the myths of the introduction of Dionysos ‘do not find their origin in any introduction of the god from without, but in the yearly inbringing of the new statue.’