Dionysus was soon established as the god of wine, revelry, delirious intoxication, uninhibited dissipation, and “the orgastic future.” The Romans called him by the name BACCHUS and worshipped him quite as devotedly as did the Greeks. He was to stand in a kind of polar opposition to Apollo—one representing the golden light of reason, harmonious music, lyric poetry, and mathematics, the other embodying the darker energies of disorder, liberation, wild music, bloodlust, frenzy, and unreason.
