There’s often a different set of values in different times. Sex and drinking seems to have been as popular then as they were in the 60’s. If that was the culture of the time, I find it interesting, not awful. But as a tee-totaler, myself, that wouldn’t have been a cult that would have appealed. But I’m as happy to see art of nymphs and satyrs as I am to see art of a glorious horse head. (As someone with a photo of Secretariat in her living room.)
A photo of Secretariat? I have the actual head mounted on the wall here. ;^)
I'm also a non-drinker. There is a difference between a party and an Dionysian orgy, however. :^) The ancient cult wasn't an asset, although I have often enjoyed that wall painting from Villa of the Mysteries.
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