They overflowed not with the immoral and insane ecstasy of the rites of dionysius, but the ecstasy of the man who loves his neighbor as himself, of the man who would not have the rich crush the poor, of the man who sought kindness for the stranger, the oppressed, the widow, the fatherless.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
We may say as Nietzsche did, that tragic art is the reconciliation of Apollo and dionysius, of dreaming and emotional intoxication, and both these conditions are, in Freud's words, due to repression.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The Poet dionysius speaks of the feat being performed in the country of the Marianduni, near Colchis.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant