Spirits of the corn. Greek myth told of the triumphal progress of Dionysus god of the vine and of ecstasy the god travelled to the edge of the known world and won mankind to his worship and the cultivation of vines. Dionysus was killed by the Titans creatures of an earlier epoch who mangled his body as the grape is mangled to extract its juice for wine. Hence later in antiquity the triumph of Dionysus was understood as a sign of the afterlife and was therefore often depicted on sarcophagi. The triumphal progress of Dionysus with the four seasons. Roman Sarcophagus .
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Spirits of the corn. Greek myth told of the triumphal progress of Dionysus god of the vine and of ecstasy the god travelled to the edge of the known world and won mankind to his worship and the cultivation of vines. Dionysus was killed by the Titans creatures of an earlier epoch who mangled his body as the grape is mangled to extract its juice for wine. Hence later in antiquity the triumph of Dionysus was understood as a sign of the afterlife and was therefore often depicted on sarcophagi. The triumphal progress of Dionysus with the four seasons. Roman Sarcophagus .