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An Invitation to Pompeii’s Wildest Party - Archaeology Magazine https://share.google/P4caT61iwRM7lETP3

"Pompeii’s residents seem to have had a particular affinity for Dionysian worship from early in the city’s history. In the mid-third century b.c., Samnites, Pompeii’s Oscan-speaking founders, built a public temple outside the city. This temple was dedicated to Loufir, the Oscan name for the deity that Pompeians would later come to conflate with Dionysus. Loufir bears a close linguistic, and likely ritual, connection to Liber, “the free one,” one of the god’s Latin names.'