量子资源网提供本资源 <> Professor Bettany Hughes investigates the story of Bacchus, god of wine, revelry, theatre and excess, travelling to Georgia, Jordan, Greece and Britain to discover his origins and his resence in the modern world, and exlore how 'losing oneself' lays a vital role in the develoment of civilisation. In this fascinating journey, Bettany begins in Georgia where she discovers evidence of the world's oldest wine roduction, and the role it may have layed in building communities. In Athens she reveals Bacchus's ivotal role in a society where his ecstatic worshi was embraced by all classes, and most imortantly women. On Cyrus she uncovers startling arallels between Bacchus and Christ. Finally, Bettany follows the god's modern embrace in Nietzsche's hilosohy, exerimental theatre and the hedonistic hiie movement to conclude that, while this god of ecstasy is worthy of contemorary reconsideration, it is vital to heed the warning of the ancients - "MEDEN AGAN" - nothing in excess.
