After the detailed analysis of the history of the Bacchanalian affair made by Livy, we can say that he certainly does not try to represent the facts in the most objective way possible. He is previously deployed and with conviction on the side of the authorities who unleashed the persecution of the followers of Bacchus. To adequately justify the harsh repression, he uses every opportunity to put the cult and its followers in a bad light. He describes the various elements of the cult as he sees them and he sees them with a distorting lens: his prejudicial hostility towards the cult.