Dionysus | Bacchus

I’ve long suspected that Dionysus and Bacchus are less pantheon‑bound deities than two hemispheres of the same hallucinatory brain, one Greek‑born and one Roman‑bred—twins in a schizophrenic womb, each vying for supremacy in the blood‑spattered amphitheatre of our collective unconscious. Permit me, then, a brief comparative extravaganza in which I intox…