Agrionius

{{Short description|Ancient Greek mythological epithet}}

Agrionius (Ancient Greek: Ἀγριώνιος) was an epithet of the Greek god Dionysus,{{Cite book | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = Leonhard Schmitz | contribution = Agresphon | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 76 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0085.html | access-date = 2008-05-31 | archive-date = 2015-04-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150401070137/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0085.html | url-status = dead }} under which he was worshiped at Orchomenus in Boeotia, and from which his festival, the Agrionia, in that place derived its name.Dict.of Ant. p. 30Karl Otfried Müller, Orchom. p. 166, &c. The epithet itself means "fierce", and is derived from a Greek root word indicating things relating to the wild.{{cite book | last = Liddell | first = Henry | author-link = Henry Liddell |author2= Robert Scott |author2-link= Robert Scott (philologist) | title = A Greek-English Lexicon | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1996 | location = Oxford | pages = 14 | isbn = 0-19-864226-1}} It is thought to represent Dionysus' fondness for savagery and savage beasts.{{cite book | last = Stratton | first = Thomas | title = The Celtic origin of a great part of the Greek and Latin languages, and of many classical proper names | publisher = Maclachlan & Stewart | year = 1870 | location = Edinburgh | pages = [https://archive.org/details/celticoriginagr00edigoog/page/n59 55] | url = https://archive.org/details/celticoriginagr00edigoog }}