Israeli archeologist unearthed an impressive Roman sarcophagus with drunken Heracles during a wine-drinking competition with Dionysus in Caesarea. It is not clear what Heracles was expecting at all? There is, however, an alternative version - that this is the dedication of Heracles to the Dionysian mysteries, so that he could finally adore him and ascend to Olympus after his death.
Dionysus himself with a entourage on the other side.
"Dionysian processions - a familiar motive on the Roman sarcophages of the II and III centuries A.D. .. , although not seen in Israel before. The procession is as if accompanying the deceased on his final journey as drinking and dancing become symbols of liberation and transition to life in the afterlife, says archaeologist Nohar Shahar, who led the excavations. - But the scene of the drunken competition is known mainly only by a few mosaics."
I wonder what the Romans hoped for in the afterlife? As far as I can remember from childhood, the Greeks in Hades were all quite sad, - although they were all also devoted to different mysteries, something promised to them. Black move to the Olympus? )
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