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Temple of Bacchus 

(via heckyeahhermes)

Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology. Alcohol, especially wine, played an important role in Greek culture with Dionysus being an important reason for this life style.

Olympians: Dionysus by ~Fedini

The Bacchae, Euripides (trans. William Arrowsmith)

The Orphic Hymns (via dukeofbookingham)

Wine flows as if it were blood in my veins. 

–from “Looking Around” by Charles Wright, Poetry, October 1999 Charles Wright has been awarded the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for his title Bye-and-Bye: Selected Later Poems, in which “Looking Around” also appears. The prize includes a $150,000 cash award.

“Anger does not become a god. You should not be like a human being.”

god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, and festivity

Donna Tartt. The Secret History