The Bacchae

by Euripides

Some years later, Zeus and Hera were arguing about who got more pleasure from sex: men or women. To settle the argument, they called for Tiresias, who had lived as both. Tiresias took the side of Zeus, saying that women’s pleasure was greater, and Hera, in her fury, turned him blind.

don't mess with Hera

As a result, Dionysus is often known by the epithet “twice-born” and is unique in having two mothers: one female, one male.

He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is more shape-shifting associated with Dionysus than with any other Greek god except for his father, Zeus, whose metamorphoses were usually prompted by his pursuit of women.

Nietzsche distinguishes between the two oppositional human artistic impulses, Apollonian and Dionysian.

What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the rational.

Sense is nonsense to a fool.