{{Short description|Epithet of Dionysus}} {{for|the leaf beetle genus and mythological person|Bromius obscurus|Bromius (son of Aegyptus)}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2021}} '''Bromius''' ({{langx|grc|Βρόμιος}}) in ancient Greece was used as an epithet of Dionysus/Bacchus. It signifies "noisy", "roaring", or "boisterous", from {{lang|grc|βρέμειν}}, to roar.<ref>{{Cite web|title=DIONYSUS TITLES & EPITHETS - Ancient Greek Religion|url=https://www.theoi.com/Cult/DionysosTitles.html|access-date=2020-08-13|website=www.theoi.com}}</ref> According to Richard Buxton, Bromius (Bromios) is another name for a fundamental divine figure that precedes Ouranus and Night in Orphic myth.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} This alternative view to Hesiod was discovered by a fragmentary papyrus discovered in Derveni, Macedonia (Greece) in 1962, which is referred to as the Derveni papyrus.
==Mythology== '''Bromius''' is another name for Dionysus, the son of Semele and Zeus. Zeus' jealous wife Hera discovered the affair and contrived to influence Semele to request that Zeus revealed his true form to her. Once Zeus has promised his lover that he will grant her any wish, she asks to see him in his godly appearance (an event referred to in antiquity as an epiphany). Semele's mortal frame cannot withstand the overwhelming spectacle, accompanied by lightning and fire, and she is destroyed. Since all sexual intercourse with gods is procreative, Semele was pregnant at the time, and Zeus plucks the child from its mother's womb and puts him in his thigh until he is ready to be born.<ref>{{Cite web|title=DIONYSUS MYTHS 1 GENERAL - Greek Mythology|url=https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/DionysosMyths.html|access-date=2020-08-13|website=www.theoi.com}}</ref> Despite his half-mortal heritage, Bromius is a true god as opposed to a demi-god on account of being born from Zeus – the “twice-born god”.
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