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Photo by Alinari Studio  Italy  circa 1900

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Questioning Pictures | Stefano Graziani

Pantheon, Roma, 2016

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Terracotta Head of Beardless Dionysos Figurine

c. 323 - 31 B.C.

“How could ecstasy be creative if it rose from an insufficiency, from a not-having coupled with a desire to have? The elemental depths gape open and out of them a monstrous creature raises its head before which all the limits that the normal day has set must disappear. There man stands on the threshold of madness – in fact, he is already part of it even if his wildness which wishes to pass on into destructiveness still remains mercifully hidden.” Walter F. Otto, “Dionysos: Myth and Cult”

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Head of Medusa | Vatican Museum

Rome | Italy

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An interview about the creative process of writing In Exile, a novel about the re-birth of Dionysus in Rome.

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girls literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

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Fishermen, Sorrento. November 2015.

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The heads of Dionysus and Aphrodite, recently discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Aizanoi in Turkey.

Source

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some greek pantheon in gold

available as a print

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Folding screen with dancing figures, anonymous, Paris, 1879

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Caravaggio, details of Bacchus.

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Favignana and Levanzo

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My solo trip to Favignana and Levanzo, islands in north western Sicily. It felt a little bit like being in the world of the Odyssey (minus the gods, and with the addition of rusty old bike...)

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~ Dionysus.

Roman work after a Greek models of the 4th century B.C.

Medium: Marble

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Sunrise at Apollo temple, Side, Turkey

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Ariadne, probably belonged to a cult group depicting the wedding of Dionysus

Etruscan, 3rd century BC