"Raise a glass to the city of Dion on the Eastern slopes of Mount Olympus, considered by the ancient Greeks a divine location, where Zeus held sway.And while we’re at it, raise a glass to Zeus’ son, Dionysus the god of fertility and theater, and most famously, wine: …hail to you, Dionysus, god of abundant clusters! Grant that we may come again rejoicing to this season, and from that season onwards for many a year. – The Homeric hymn to Dionysus. In the summer of 1987, archaeologists working at an excavation site near the modern village of Dion unearthed a mosaic of thousands of stone tessarae depictng ‘ivy-crowned Dionysus, the loud-crying god, splendid son of Zeus and glorious Semele,’ raising a drinking horn as he rides nude in a chariot pulled by sea panthers. ...”
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