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Drunkenness, sloth, and depravity are the consequences of the bacchanalia. Even the idealized figure of Bacchus, which may have been copied from the figure of the God Mars on a Roman sarcophagus, raises doubts about his dignity. He is leaning on a horn of plenty and reaching for grape. Bacchus, or Dionysus, the god of fertility and wine, was the model of immoderation, the counterpart to Apollo.
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