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Published: 2009-01-09 22:56:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 3153; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 16
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A first try to draw Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, pleasure and festivity.Dionysos was the youngest of the twelve great gods on Olympus, a son of Zeus (who else?) and the mortal woman Semele. He is sometimes described as a beautiful but effeminate youth (according to some myths he had even been brought up as a girl in an attempt to hide him away from the wrath of jealous Hera), so I thought, why not depict him as some kind of a transvetite?
His hair looks kinda strange, since he's tried to bleach it.
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Omg, this was my very first try to draw him! It feels so old and badly drawn now. XD
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Yeah. That's why he's started to shave it away now. ^^
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Dio you amazing bitch
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Trans-dyonisos is a win of epic proportions. No, really. What on earth xD
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Yay! I'm happy you think so.
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I love the creativity of your interpretation. Those crazy Greeks!
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Thank you!
Crazy is the word. I love mythologies that encourage to queer interpretations.
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Ooh, never thought of him like this before. Of course, the only way I've seen Dionysus (or some god very much like him anyway, probably a roman version) was as a fat drunk on a cloud, in the old Asterix movies. 
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A fat drunk was the first that came to my mind too when I thought about Dionysos, but when I read that he sometimes was depicted as a pretty, effeminate youth during antiquity, I decided to focus on that instead. One of the gods just have to be absolutely fabulous and feminine.
This is said about Dionysos in Ovid's Metamorphoses:
"You have youth unfading; youβre a boy for ever; you shine the fairest in the firmament. When you lay by your horns, your countenance is like a lovely girlβs."
(Ovid was a Roman, though.)
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Everyone definitely needs more fabulous.
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That's right. He is known as Ovidius in Swedish (and I actually think that was his name in Roman too). He wrote a lot about love, which is also a common theme in his Metamorphoses, an epic poem about transformations in Greek mythology.
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Hmm... never heard of him. I'm gonna have to check him out some time.
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That's an interesting take on Dionysus. I like this.
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Thanks! Since some of the goddesses seem to be quite mannish, I thought it would be fun with a god who acts really feminine.
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