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What does Dionysiac mean?

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  1. Of, or relating to Dionysus or to the Dionysia.
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He takes the experiences we have of Apolline art and Dionysiac art as his data, and asks how the world must be in order for these experiences to be vouchsafed us.
This was the second day of the third Dionysiac festival, called the Anthesteria.
The tribes also passed honorary decrees, awarded honorific crowns, and sponsored dinners for all members at the time of the Dionysiac and Panathenaic festivals.
These scenes may have Dionysiac associations and bring to mind the amorous encounters between satyrs and maenads.
These are found in a number of myths, notably that of Endymion, and on Dionysiac sarcophagi, where personifications of the seasons often also appear.
Intoxicated perhaps by his Dionysiac sincerity, Bataille nonetheless opened a path to the absolute for art.

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