‘Tis His Season

The current grape harvest season makes me think of Dionysus (The Romans called the God of wine Bacchus.).

This is a terracotta bowl fragment featuring a relief of Dionysus, god of wine, vegetation, theater, and ecstasy, from Morgantina, an ancient Greek town in Sicily (3rd to 1st century B.C.E.).

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