Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy

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2018
58m

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Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy (2018)

Bettany Hughes examines the story of the god of wine, revelry, theatre and excess. She visits Jordan, Georgia, Greece and Britain to discover his origins, modern presence and role in the dev... Read allBettany Hughes examines the story of the god of wine, revelry, theatre and excess. She visits Jordan, Georgia, Greece and Britain to discover his origins, modern presence and role in the development of civilisation.Bettany Hughes examines the story of the god of wine, revelry, theatre and excess. She visits Jordan, Georgia, Greece and Britain to discover his origins, modern presence and role in the development of civilisation.

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Hughes often promotes fringe theories, but she has gone off the rails with this this baccus doc

"Dionusus is even talked about as transgender."

Oh please stop with the patently forced PC. That is one mention out of literally tens of thousands of mentions of Dionysus. As far as the relief with supposed "possible breasts" a) the experts are not even sure that is Dionysus; and b) because of Greek style and general androgynous portrayal by some Greek artists, one cloud make that claim of any figure, mythological or historic, portrayed more than 50 times in Greek art since one will find some portion that look androgynous. And "transgender" and androgyny are NOT the same thing

oh and Dionysian is a fusion? this is some kind of discovery. What god isn't? Allah is, Christ is, Yahweh is and all the pantheons of the ancient polytheism are.

Hughes' early presentations for example on Helen were passable despite the errors and strange injections of modern sensibilities. But of late she really has gone off the rails.