Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, joy, and celebration, had one of the most unusual births in mythology. The son of Zeus and the mortal Semele, he was rescued before birth and carried in Zeus’s own ...

We all know the short-term effects of too much alcohol: nausea, a headache the next morning, and a lost “day after” when we cope with the mental and physical effects of having been drunk the previous ...

On the surface level, Jesus Christ and Dionysus are probably the last divine figures you would compare, as they seem ...