Dionysian

By Deane Barker • • tags: ancient-greece •

Definition: focused on pleasure

Dionysus was the Greek god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theater. All very pleasure-oriented things.

This phrase is a lot like Bacchanal.

Why I Looked It Up

In an episode of Moonlighting, David refers to the weekend as:

Two days of Dionysian delights.

Links from this – Bacchanal December 25, 2022
This comes from Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and revelry. In some context, it has a sexual subtext, used to describe and orgy or indulgent sexual performance. Humorously, one of the top search results for the word is the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas .