commitment to purpose, harmony, and proportionality. Dionysus symbolized the chaotic and the sensual which was expressed in the orgiastic freedom of the uninhibited eroticism which undergirded a religion of sex dramatized later in the Roman Bacchanalia. After consideration, Nietzsche threw his lot with Dionysus, arguing for a new social conscience that would supplant the herd morality of the masses who were repressed by the decadent weakness of the influence of Judeo-Christianity. In Nietzsche’s