He reminds her of the brighter, more cheering vision which they have enjoyed together as communicants in the Dionysiac mysteries.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
It is almost certain that, in the same years in which the Dionysiac fanaticism arrived at Ostia, the Egyptian cults had been brought by merchants and sailors to Puteoli.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
That this supposititious Dionysiac phase of Hellenic culture was in turn succeeded by more rational stages, in which the impulsive flow of life was curbed and dammed in by operations of the intellect, is not permitted by Nietzsche to invalidate the argument.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller