A sculpture of Dionysus of 1879 by British sculptor George Simonds (1843-1929), in the Shipley Gallery, Gateshead.
Dionysus (/daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/; Greek: Διόνυσος Dionysos) is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in ancient Greek religion and myth.