Dionysian By Deane Barker • December 8, 2023 • 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.