Question

This action was attributed to Dionysus during a festival at Elis and also occurred when the Nysiades brought an infant Dionysus to Cissusa. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this action, which Dionysus performed out of pity after a bloody battle at Lake Astacid during his invasion of India, allowing him to subsequently bind his enemies and take them prisoner.
ANSWER: changing water into wine [prompt on answers indicating giving wine or getting them drunk by asking “where did the wine come from?”; prompt on answers indicating putting to sleep with “what put them to sleep?” and prompt as above for answers of wine; prompt on bathing with “what occurred as a result of the bath?”]
[10e] Wine flowed from a rock on this island to commemorate the wedding of Dionysus and Ariadne. Theseus previously abandoned Ariadne on this island.
ANSWER: Naxos
[10m] Dionysus granted the ability to change water into wine to the Oenotropae of Delos, whom this figure tried to kidnap. This figure received a false dream from Zeus in Book II of the Iliad, inciting the Achaeans to attack.
ANSWER: Agamemnon
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