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S7E7 - All About Dionysius

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

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Dionysus' Enthusiasm

Dionysus was relieved to have escaped, but he was also furious. He will regret the day he ever took his anger out on my followers, he said. And then he cursed like hergus and made the king go mad. In this story, when we say madness, we are talking about a god-induced state of insensibility rather than a medical condition. It could more accurately be called enthusiasm. A few days later, Lycurgus was so enthused that he began to attack the people closest to him,. When his guards went to restrain him, he turned the axe on himself and took his own life.

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