109: ecstasy Mar 27, 2015

The ancient Festivals of Dionysus, held in Athens, honored of the Greek god Dionysus, in which, theater performances of tragedies and comedies were judged. Dionysus (also Dionysos and less commonly Dionysius) is the Greek god of wine and the theater. To become more at one with Dionysus, one can partake in theater, and or drink wine, the more wine one drinks, the more at one that person will be with Dionysus. Needless to say there was much of both at these festivals. This action, of seeming to be outside one's own body, either through dramatics or through drinking was called 'ekstasis' which literally means ‘standing outside oneself', and it is where the word 'ecstasy' comes from.