about this persongreek god. according to the most used geneology, dionysus (or 'dionysos' in greek) is the son of Zeus, chief of the Olympians, and Semele, a woman of Thebes. dionysus is the god of wine and madness, vegetation, and the theatre, and was the focus of various mystery cults. dionysus is a strange god. Although he is best known as the god of wine, he is also a vegetation deity, a god of the liquid element, a death god, a god who comes into and changes, often irrevocably, the normal community life, and lastly the god of the theatre.dionysus certainly roves more than the other gods; the traditional picture of him is not one of him sitting sedately on Olympus sipping nectar and listening to the Muses sing. Rather it is one of him roaming through the wilderness, thrysus in hand, followed by bands of ecstatic women, his Bacchants, and spreading the art of cultivation of vines and of wine-making. but wine has both positive and negative aspects. It makes people drunk, causes them to behave in strange ways. The Greeks were well aware of the dual natures of wine, mirrored by the dual nature of its god. He is a male god, but he is always surrounded by women, his chief worshippers. His worship involved transvestism and the blurring of sex roles. in general, death also forms a major part of the worship of dionysus.

According to the myth, as a young child, dionysus was kidnapped by the Titans, who lured him with marvellous toys. While he is gazing at his own image in a mirror, the Titans slice his throat with a sacrificial knife. The child-dionysus is then cut up into pieces and first boiled, then roasted. Zeus is attracted by the smell of cooking, and when he realises what is being cooked, he kills the Titans with a thunderbolt and resurrects dionysus. According to some variants of the story, man then first appeared, born from the ashes of the burned Titans.friedrich nietzsche used dionysus in his work as a symbol of irrationality, passion and art. nietzsche thus saw the "Dionysian tragic artist" as a positive person, who represented the ideal of totally forgetting who you are and getting in a whirl of artistic and passionate excitement.