Classical philosophy and its figures, brought from Greek or Roman mythology, remain absolutely valid today. Nothing new under the sun. In essence the human being is the same now as thousands of years ago. The same motivations, the same emotions, the same reason as an evolutionary advantage of a species.
Dionysus or Bacchus seems to be the strongest God who has survived to this day. From Velázquez as a foretaste of the modern age, and his representation in "The Triumph of Bacchus", or Titian in his "Bacchus and Ariadne" to Nietzsche who elevated him in philosophy as the God who housed all wisdom, we remember his taste for the quote: "In vino veritas."
Modern society is based on the pillars of this God of hedonism, sexuality and confusion, of the search for the spiritual between the most complete free will and the bustle of modernity.
Undoubtedly, we are before a God who has always accompanied art and thought, spirituality and surrender to pleasures as the best response to pain. Just what modern man desperately seeks in a society conquered by individualism.
Dionysus rescued Ariadne, abandoned by Theseus on a remote island. In the same way, Bacchus comes to our rescue today, accompanied by his satyrs and maenads, in a Dionysian procession that brings us closer to the ecstasy of fulfillment as individuals. Without thinking about tomorrow or others.
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