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1. Click player below to start the music. 2. Click the image to dive into the art. 3. Study for three and a half minutes this great piece of art and all the drama. |
One of the most fascinating things about ancient Greek culture is their insights into the human psyche. Their Gods depict all the basic human desires and archetypes - and western culture is still using these.
Bacchus (which is the Roman version of Dionysus) and Cupid (which is Eros in the Greek original) are certainly still in "use" today. Drinking and lust go very well together.
More? Jean-Léon Gérôme @ ArtRenewal
Where are the border between the aspects of platonically (Greeks too!)- love and bloody hardcore-sex?! …and where is the boundary between battle-drinking and a exhilaration by means of painting, poetize or a deep ecstasy if you hear music…?