 ("Iliad", Book VI.132-37)
The thyrsus is explicitly attributed to Dionysus in Euripides's play "The Bacchae" as part of the costume of the Dionysian cult....To raise my Bacchic shout, and clothe all who respond/ In fawnskin habits, and put my thyrsus in their hands–/ The weapon wreathed with ivy-shoots..." Euripides also writes, "There's a brute wildness in the fennel-wands—Reverence it well.