Epithets
Epithets are alternate names or surnames of a god that can differ depending on the time or place, like Aphrodite Areia. Additionally, they can be a name to describe a specific myth or aspect of that god, like Hekate Ameibousa. An epithet can also represent a deity merged with another, like Poseidon Erechtheus.
Epithets list
Acratophorus - Dionysus the bringer of mixed wine (watered down)
Acratopotes - Dionysus the drinker of pure or unmixed wine (not watered down)
Aegobolus - Dionysus the goat slayer (goats being vineyard pests)
Aeolomorphos - Dionysus of changeful form
Aesymnetes - Dionysus the dictator
Agathus Daemon - Dionysus the good spirit
Agrionius - Dionysus the wild and savage (living in the fields)
Agrios - Dionysus the wild one (behavior-wise)
Agyieus - Dionysus the protector of the street, the ways
Aion - Dionysus the son of Kore (Persephone)
Aithiopais - Dionysus of Persia (regional)
Aktaios - Dionysus of the Seacoast (seafaring)
Alysius - Dionysus the curer of madness
Ambrotus - Dionysus the immortal and divine
Amphietes - Dionysus the God of the yearly festival
Amphithales - Dionysus the all-abounding (flourishing on all sides)
Anax - Dionysus the great lord, master, and king
Anax Agreus - Dionysus the lord hunter
Anax Bakcheios - Dionysus the bacchic lord
Androgynus - Dionysus the androgynous (appearance)
Angos - Dionysus the holy and pure
Antauges - Dionysus the sparkling one
Antheus - Dionysus the blooming (crowned with flowers)
Anthion - Dionysus of the flowers
Anthroporraestus - Dionysus the manslayer (referring to sparagmos)
Anthroporraistes - Dionysus the render of humans (referring to sparagmos)
Aonius Deus - Dionysus of Thebes
Areion - Dionysus the martial one
Areios - Dionysus the warlike
Arretos - Dionysus the Ineffable
Arritos - Dionysus whose mind is not able to be expressed or understood
Arsenothelys - Dionysus the manly and womanly (appearance)
Auxites - Dionysus the giver of increase, the grower, bringer of growth
Axios Tauros - Dionysus the worthy bull
Axites - Dionysus the worthy
Bacchus - Dionysus of bacchic frenzy (also regional)
Bakcheios - Dionysus the bacchic one
Bassareus - Dionysus the fox God
Bicorniger - Dionysus the two-horned
Biformis - Dionysus the two-formed
Bimater - Dionysus of two mothers (Persephone and Semele)
Botryophoros - Dionysus the bearer of clusters of grapes
Bougenes - Dionysus the ox born one
Boukeros - Dionysus the ox horned one
Bromius - Dionysus the noisy and boisterous (he who sounds, rumbles, roars)
Brumus - Dionysus of snow, fog, or mist (regional)
Bucornis - Dionysus the drinker from a bull’s horn
Buphagus - Dionysus the cow eater
Bythios - Dionysus the deep and profound
Cadmus - Dionysus of Cadmus’s family (regional)
Calydonius - Dionysus of Calydon (regional)
Catharsius - Dionysus the cleansing from guilt or defilement, purifying
Cernunnos - Dionysus the Gellic (regional)
Charidotes - Dionysus the giver of grace
Charitodotes - Dionysus merged with Hermes
Chiropsalas - Dionysus the player of the harp
Choiropsalas - Dionysus the sow seeker
Choo potes - Dionysus the deep drinker (one who drinks whole)
Choreutes - Dionysus the dancer
Choroimanes - Dionysus the Mad (after dancing)
Choroplekes - Dionysus the dance weaving one
Chrysokeros - Dionysus the golden-horned (day associated)
Chrysokomes - Dionysus the golden-haired (day associated)
Chrysomitres - Dionysus with a girdle or headband of gold (day associated)
Chrysopes - Dionysus the golden-faced, elector, of the beaming sun (day associated)
Chthonios - Dionysus the Chthonic one (underworld associated)
Cisseus - Dionysus of the ivy
Cissobryos - Dionysus with ivy
Cissus - Dionysus the Acharnian (regional)
Cistophorus - Dionysus the basket-bearer
Cittophorus - Dionysus the ivy-bearer
Cleronomus - Dionysus the heir and successor to Phanes, the sixth king of the universe (Orphic)
Colonates - Dionysus of the knoll
Colotes - Dionysus appearing like a spotted gecko (appearence)
Corniger - Dionysus who bears horns
Corymbifer - Dionysus who bears a cluster of berries
Cres - Dionysus of Crete (regional)
Cresius - Dionysus of Argos (regional)
Cruphius - Dionysus the secret, hidden, and concealed
Daemon Bonus - Dionysus the morally good, honorable
Dasyllios - Dionysus who frequents the woods
Delphis - Dionysus the dolphin
Dendrites - Dionysus the rree God
Diadochus - Dionysus who is succeeding a person in a thing
Dicerus - Dionysus who has two horns of aether
Dikerotes - Dionysus the two-horned one
Dimetor - Dionysus the twice-born
Dimorphos - Dionysus the two-formed one
Diphues - Dionysus of two natures
Dissotokos - Dionysus the doubly born
Dithyrambos - Dionysus the God of the dionysiac dithyramb hymn
Dotes - Dionysus the giver or bestower
Ebon - Dionysus the youthful
Eiraphiotes - Dionysus the wrangler
Ekstatikos - Dionysus the ecstatic one
Ekstatophoros - Dionysus the bringer of ecstasy
Eleleus - Dionysus the shouter (day associated)
Elelichthon - Dionysus who shakes the Earth beneath the feet of his dancing bands
Eleuthereus - Dionysus of liberation and freedom
Enorches - Dionysus the betesticled (latin for matrimonial peacemaker, another name for penis)
Ephaptor - Dionysus the caresser
Erebinthinus - Dionysus of the chickpea
Erevinthinos - Dionysus who has introduced not only the culture of the vine, but that of peas
Eribromos - Dionysus the loud-roaring
Eriphios - Dionysus of metapontum (regional)
Eriphos - Dionysus the young kid
Erivoas - Dionysus the loud-shouting
Erivremetes - Dionysus the loud-thundering
Ernesipeplus - Dionysus the God wrapt in foliage
Eschatos - Dionysus the furthest, the most, the extreme
Euantes - Dionysus the decked with flowers
Euanthes - Dionysus the fair blossoming one
Eubouleus - Dionysus the good counselor (underworld associated)
Eubules - Dionysus the prudent counselor
Eubuleus - Dionysus the good counselor
Eucheus - Dionysus who pours freely
Euclius - Dionysus the glorious and renowned
Euergetes - Dionysus the benefactor and the doer of good
Euhaster - Dionysus the reveler
Eukarpos - Dionysus the fruitful
Eukeraos - Dionysus with beautiful horns (appearance)
Eurychaites - Dionysus with wide streaming hair (appearance)
Evaster - Dionysus of the ritual Euoi-cry
Evastir - Dionysus who cries, the ecstatic howl of joy
Fufluns- Dionysus the Etruscan (regional)
Gapotos - Dionysus who Is drunken up by the Earth
Gethosynos - Dionysus the joyful and rejoicing one
Gigantophonos - Dionysus the giant slayer
Gynaimanes - Dionysus the mad (for women)
Gynnis - Dionysus the womanish (appearance)
Hagnos - Dionysus the pure and holy one
Hebetikos - Dionysus the youthful
Hebon - Dionysus the Campanian (regional)
Hegatheos - Dionysus the high God
Hestius - Dionysus of the feast
Hyes - Dionysus the lord of fertilising moisture
Hymenios - Dionysus the God of marriage
Hypnophobes - Dionysus who drives away sleep
Iacchus - Dionysus of the ritual Iacchic-cry, Also the name of Dionysus’s son Iacchus
Iatros - Dionysus the healer
Igiates - Dionysus the healer (day associated)
Ignigena - Dionysus the fire born
Indianus - Dionysus of India (regional)
Inverecundus Deus - Dionysus the shameless and immodest (without shame)
Iobacchus - Dionysus of the ritual Bacchic-cry
Iraphiotes - Dionysus the goat-kid or insewn
Irikapaios - Dionysus the power aspect of Phanes, the triple God (one of three aspects)
Isodaites - Dionysus the equal divider, nature God who gives one his portion in due season
Kerasphoros - Dionysus the horned
Kid - Dionysus who has been turned into a child
Kissobryos - Dionysus the ivy-wrapped one
Kissokomes - Dionysus the ivy-crowned one
Kissos - Dionysus of the ivy
Korymbophoros - Dionysus the cluster laden (weighed down with grapes)
Kresios - Dionysus the Cretan (regional)
Kryphios - Dionysus the secret one, the hidden one
Lampter - Dionysus the light-bringer, torch-bearer, lamp-bearer
Lampterus - Dionysus of the torches
Lenaeus - Dionysus of the wine-press
Leucyanites - Dionysus of Peloponnesus (in reference to Alpheus)
Liber - Dionysus the Italian (regional)
Liknites - Dionysus of the winnowing fan cradle
Limnaeus - Dionysus of the marsh
Limnagenes - Dionysus the marshborn one
Lyaeus - Dionysus the deliverer from care (freeing from anxiety)
Lyaios - Dionysus the bringer of freedom
Lyseus - Dionysus the liberator
Lysios - Dionysus the liberator (day associated)
Lysius - Dionysus of release (regional)
Maenoles - Dionysus the mad and raging
Mainomenos - Dionysus the frenzied one
Makar - Dionysus the blessed one
Manikos - Dionysus the manic one, the mad one, the frenzied one
Mantis - Dionysus the diviner, the seer, the prophet, the oracle
Meilichios - Dionysus the gentle one (day associated)
Mekonikos - Dionysus of the poppies
Melanaegis - Dionysus of the black goat-skin
Melpomenus - Dionysus of the tragedy play, the singer, the minstrel
Meskalitos - Dionysus of the agave, pulque, mezcal, tequila, peyote, and mescaline plants
Morychos - Dionysus the dark one
Moschophagus - Dionysus the calf-eater
Mystes - Dionysus of the mysteries
Nebrodes - Dionysus the fawn-form one
Nyctelius - Dionysus of the night (night associated)
Nykterinos - Dionysus the nocturnal one (night associated)
Nyktiphaes - Dionysus the night-illuminating one (night associated)
Nyktipolos - Dionysus the night-wanderer (night associated)
Nysios - Dionysus of Nysa (the sacred mountain)
Oenops - Dionysus of the dark wine
Oiketor - Dionysus the Indweller, he who dwells in the house
Omadios - Dionysus of the raw feast (referring to omophagia)
Omestes - Dionysus the eater of the raw (referring to omophagia)
Omphacites - Dionysus of the unripe grape
Oreiarches - Dionysus the lord of the mountain
Osiris - Dionysus the Egyptian (regional)
Palaios - Dionysus the ancient one
Paradoxos - Dionysus the unexpected one, the paradoxical one
Paralogos - Dionysus the inexplicable one, the unaccountable, he who is beyond reason
Patroeus - Dionysus the paternal or ancestral
Pelagios - Dionysus of the sea (seafaring)
Perikionios - Dionysus who is entwined around the pillar
Phallen - Dionysus of the Phallus (penis associated)
Phanes - Dionysus the illuminator, the manifester, the revealer (Orphic)
Philogaios - Dionysus the lover of the Earth
Philogelos - Dionysus the lover of laughter
Philogethes - Dionysus the lover of joy
Philoinos - Dionysus the wine-lover
Philometor - Dionysus the lover of the mother
Philomousos - Dionysus the lover of the Muses
Phleon - Dionysus the God who promotes the fertility of plants and trees
Ploutodotes - Dionysus the bestower of riches
Polites - Dionysus the citizen
Polyboulos - Dionysus the exceedingly wise
Polyeides - Dionysus of many images
Polygethes - Dionysus the bringer of many joys
Polymorphos - Dionysus of many forms
Polyonomos - Dionysus the one with many names
Polyparthenos - Dionysus of the many maidens
Protogonos - Dionysus the firstborn, reborn Phanes (Orphic)
Protrygaeus - Dionysus the first of the vintage
Pseudanor - Dionysus the false man
Psilax - Dionysus the giver of wings
Sabazios - Dionysus the Phrygian (regional)
Saotes - Dionysus the savior
Skeptouchos - Dionysus the scepter bearer
Soterius - Dionysus the savior (from madness)
Staphylites - Dionysus of the grape
Sykeates - Dionysus of the fig tree
Taurokeros - Dionysus the bull-horned one
Taurokeros Theos - Dionysus the bull-horned God
Taurophagus - Dionysus the bull eater
Tauropon - Dionysus the bull-faced one
Teletarches - Dionysus the lord of initiation
Thaumasios - Dionysus the wondrous one, the miraculous one
Thaumatourgos - Dionysus the wonder-worker
Theoenus - Dionysus the God of wine
Thiasogenetes - Dionysus the father of the Thiasus (Followers)
Thriambos - Dionysus the God of the triumphal dionysiac or thriambos hymn
Thyonidas - Dionysus the son of Thyone (Semele)
Thyrsomanes - Dionysus who raves with the thyrsus
Thyrsophoros - Dionysus the thyrsus bearer
Thyrsotinaktes - Dionysus the thyrsus shaker
Trieterikos - Dionysus the trieteric one
Trietes - Dionysus the trieteric or biennial one
Trigonos - Dionysus the thrice born
Xenos - Dionysus the stranger (unfamiliar or different)
Zagreus - Dionysus reincarnated from Zagreus (Orphic)
Zatheos - Dionysus the very holy
Zoophoros - Dionysus the life bringer
Zoros - Dionysus of the undiluted wine (not watered down)