What are the reactions and interpretations of the Bacchic cult?
An historian is influenced by their context, as anyone one is. One cannot escape the society that they live in and the ideals, values and social norms that it places on the individual. Religion is indeed a key focus within each society and the religion can have different impacts on the society and on the individual. Each society will hence forth respond differently as they are influenced by those ideals, values and social norms that that society is based on. A religion that was under key debate in the ancient world was the Ba…
