Hades could not care less who wins: it is enough that the conflict will fill his underworld with new dead souls. He hopes the war will be a long and bloody one. Dionysus takes no active part but is satisfied by the knowledge that libations of wine will be poured, wild dances held, and sacrifices made in his honor during the periods of feasting and revelry which must inevitably punctuate the crises and climaxes of battle.
