Dionysus, Rewilding & The Invention Of Wine

The interesting parallels between the god of the vine and the domestication of the grape

The line between domestic and wild often seems more visible from the other side, a feeling of loss and restriction of freedom. Amongst the various Greek deities, Dionysus stands out for this feeling or sentiment of a ‘foreign madness’, a divine intrusion into the mundane, bringing revelry and disorder. In Nietzsche’s work The Birth of Tragedy, he associ…