#baccchus

[deliredetoucher]

Peter Paul Rubens

Venus, Cupid, Baccchus and Ceres

1612

[ginandjack]

καὶ θεὸς ἡμερίδων, ἐπικείμενον οἴνοπι κισσῷ ὡς στέφος ἑρπηστῆρα περὶ πλοκάμοισιν ἑλίξας, σῆμα τεῆς θεότητος ἔχων ὀφιώδεα μίτρην... And, god of the vines, winding round your locks as a garland a reptile laid upon the bright ivy, having a serpent-coronet as a sign of your divinity...

desciption of Dionysos in the Dionysiaca

[ginandjack]

Here, all night I sing with my winecup and then moan for You all day.

-Hafiz (who gets it)