Can anyone tell me about other attributes of Bacchus besides being the god of wine?
Bacchus is also known as dionsyus. There is a good article on wikipedia. Dionysus (Latin) or Dionysos (Greek) (from Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; both Greek and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace — as well as the patron deity of agriculture and the theatre. He was also known as the Liberator (Eleutherios), freeing one from one’s normal self, by madness, ecstasy, or wine.[1] The divine mission of Dionysus was to mingle the music of the flute and to bring an end to care and worry.[2] There is also an aspect of Dionysus on his relationship to the “cult of the souls”, and the scholar Xavier Riu writes that Dionysus presided over communication between the living and the dead.
