The favorable side of the worship of Dionysius or the bacchic revels has been shown by Euripides in his play the Bacchae.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
He shows how King Pentheus was torn to pieces in mistake by his own mother for his hostility to the bacchic rites.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The point is that love frenzy leads to poetry, and we have an illustration of it in the connection between the bacchic rites and poetry, between love and art.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell