The Anthesteria was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus. It was held each year from the 11th to the 13th of the month of Anthesterion, around the time of the January or February fu
Small terracotta wine vessels such as this one (c. 410 BC) were given as gifts during the Anthesteria. They often depict children at play or mimicking adults, here a chubby Eros pulling a toy cart. (Walters Art Museum)
Attic red-figure oinochoe depicting a young boy pulling another boy's chariot, perhaps a parody of the Anthesteria's hierogamy (430–390 BC)
The Bacchanalia were unofficial, privately funded popular Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They were almost certainly associated with Rome's native
Anthesteria
…Attic Calendar Dionysia and Bacchanalia Ganachakra…
A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term, Nicolas Poussin, 1632–1633
Titian, The Bacchanal of the Andrians, 1523–1526
Peter Paul Rubens, Bacchanalia, 1615
Lovis Corinth, Bacchanalia, 1898