Dionysus | It's All Greek to Me
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s a party, and Dionysus has invited you! As we wrap up “It’s All Greek to Me” with the party god, we look at his unique place on Olympus, the tragic origins of wine, and bucking societal expectations.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of mental illness, death, immolation, body image issues, cancer, gaslighting, premature birth, gore, animal attacks, suicide, murder, misogyny, animal death, and genitalia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Julia here. A quick announcement before we get started. Spirits is doing a live show in New York City on July 15th. We'll be in person at caveat and live streamed online so you can see us either in person or on your computer. Tickets are available now at Spiritspodcast.com slash live or you can click the link in the description. We hope to see you there. And now, |
| 0:21.8 | let's get to the episode. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode |
| 0:38.3 | 2.92. It's all Greek to me, baby, covering the great Greek boozy god of Dionysus. Yeah, |
| 0:45.9 | Amanda, this is it. This is our last of It's All Greek to Me, finally fulfilling the promise of |
| 0:51.9 | Spirits Podcast by Spirits Podcast. |
| 0:54.9 | How did it happen? |
| 0:55.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:57.6 | We did all the episodes. |
| 0:58.7 | That's how it happened. |
| 1:01.1 | Time goes on despite our best efforts. |
| 1:01.9 | It does. |
| 1:07.2 | And when I was deciding and like kind of scheduling out these episodes, I decided I wanted to go out with a bang. |
| 1:08.5 | And so for this final episode, we are covering the party god |
| 1:11.9 | himself, Dionysus. Yay. This may Julia be the god I know the most about. Tell me what you know. |
| 1:18.2 | So Dionysus is a goat related god, right? Is he a sater? A sater? He's associated with sater. |
| 1:24.9 | Is there often in his retinue? But he himself, you're thinking of Pan maybe. Oh, sure. Yeah, that makes sense. But all about the libations, all about the party, all about the good times, all about just letting it roll. A star of the play, the back guy, which I saw in London once and was really fucked up and made an impression on me. Well, don't worry, Amanda, we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:45.3 | Yay. |
| 1:46.0 | So, as you pointed out, Dionysus has quite a few domains. |
| 1:50.0 | He is the god of wine, of revelry, of pleasure, and of theater. |
| 1:55.3 | As theater kids, we love Dionysus, and that was even before we could drink. |
| 1:59.6 | That's true. It was said that wherever he went, satyrs, like you mentioned, his followers who are the |
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