bacchus is back

Alexandra. Rome.

[hismarmorealcalm]

Photo by Alinari Studio  Italy  circa 1900

[yama-bato]

Questioning Pictures | Stefano Graziani

Pantheon, Roma, 2016

[animus-inviolabilis]

Terracotta Head of Beardless Dionysos Figurine

c. 323 - 31 B.C.

“How could ecstasy be creative if it rose from an insufficiency, from a not-having coupled with a desire to have? The elemental depths gape open and out of them a monstrous creature raises its head before which all the limits that the normal day has set must disappear. There man stands on the threshold of madness – in fact, he is already part of it even if his wildness which wishes to pass on into destructiveness still remains mercifully hidden.” Walter F. Otto, “Dionysos: Myth and Cult”

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

Head of Medusa | Vatican Museum

Rome | Italy

[dionysusinexile]

An interview about the creative process of writing In Exile, a novel about the re-birth of Dionysus in Rome.

[domus-aurea2]

[masha4ever]

girls literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

[scavengedluxury]

Fishermen, Sorrento. November 2015.

[dionysusinexile]

The heads of Dionysus and Aphrodite, recently discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Aizanoi in Turkey.

Source

[storylinecaroline]

some greek pantheon in gold

available as a print

[daughterofchaos]

Folding screen with dancing figures, anonymous, Paris, 1879

[croathia]

Caravaggio, details of Bacchus.

[dionysusinexile]

Favignana and Levanzo

[dionysusinexile]

Solitude and swimming spots in Favignana (Sicily)

Favignana was just what I needed. Mention Favignana to most people outside of Italy and you get blank looks. Mention Favignana to Italians and you get wistful sighs. This island in north western Si…

My solo trip to Favignana and Levanzo, islands in north western Sicily. It felt a little bit like being in the world of the Odyssey (minus the gods, and with the addition of rusty old bike...)

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Dionysus.

Roman work after a Greek models of the 4th century B.C.

Medium: Marble

[arjuna-vallabha]

Sunrise at Apollo temple, Side, Turkey

[via-appia]

Ariadne, probably belonged to a cult group depicting the wedding of Dionysus

Etruscan, 3rd century BC