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"Dionysus" is a song by South Korean boy band BTS. It was released digitally on April 12, 2019, as part of the extended play Map of the Soul: Persona. Background and release Big Hit Entertainment teased the song title when they posted a short description of Dionysus on their official website. Upon doing so it trended on Twitter worldwide. The song was announced to be on their album tracklist Map of the Soul: Persona a few days before the scheduled release of April 12, 2019. The track was also hinted at when teaser pictures of the members holding grapes were released. Promotion BTS promoted the song in Korea on the shows Inkigayo, Show! Music Core, Music Bank, and M Countdown. BTS gave a high-octane performance of the song at the 2019 Melon Music Awards and 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards, where the group swept all grand prizes. The song was also performed at the 2019 SBS Gayo Daejeon and the 2019 KBS Song Festival. Composition and lyrics In a press release RM described the song as, "the joy and pain of creating something” and “an honest track". It is named after the Greek god of the same name, known for debauchery and excess. It is in the genre of rap-rock, synth-pop, and hip-hop and consist of multi-part hooks, a trap breakdown, an ending chorus that has double-time drums and features Jin's 'rocking adlibs' throughout the song.

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“For were it not Dionysus to whom they institute a procession and sing songs in honor of the pudenda, it would be the most shameful action. But Dionysus, in whose honor they rave in bacchic frenzy, and Hades are the same.”
— Heraclitus, On Nature (Fragment); G. T. W. Patrick, transl. The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature (1889), p. 113
“The divine madness was subdivided into four kinds, prophetic, initiatory, poetic, erotic, having four gods presiding over them; the first was the inspiration of Apollo, the second that of Dionysus, the third that of the Muses, the fourth that of Aphrodite and Eros.”
— Socrates as quoted by Plato, Phaedrus, 265b; Benjamin Jowett, transl., The Dialogues of Plato, 3rd ed. (1892), p. 473
“To the grape-giver Bacchants shout all hail;”
— Meleager of Gadara, Anthologia Palatina, 9.363; H. C. Beeching, Love in Idleness (1883); In a Garden, and other Poems (1895)
“O Lord with whom playeth Love the subduer and the dark-eyed Nymphs and rosy Aphrodite as thou wanderest the tops of the lofty hills, to thee I kneel; do thou come unto me kind and lending ear unto a prayer that is acceptable, and give Cleobulus good counsel, O Dionysus, to receive my love.”
— Anacreon, Fragment "To Dionysus", quoted by Dio Chrysostom, Declamations, II, 62; J. M. Edmonds, transl., Lyra Graeca, Vol. 2 (1922), p. 138
“The olive-trees belong to Pallas and the vines round them to Dionysus.”
— Cometas Chartularius, Anthologia Palatina, IX, 586; W. R. Paton, transl., Greek Anthology, Vol. 3 (1915), p. 326
“And cup-like Twillpants, stroude in Bacchus Bowres.”
— George Chapman, Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

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Notable quotes

“For were it not Dionysus to whom they institute a procession and sing songs in honor of the pudenda, it would be the most shameful action. But Dionysus, in whose honor they rave in bacchic frenzy, and Hades are the same.”
— Heraclitus, On Nature (Fragment); G. T. W. Patrick, transl. The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature (1889), p. 113
“The divine madness was subdivided into four kinds, prophetic, initiatory, poetic, erotic, having four gods presiding over them; the first was the inspiration of Apollo, the second that of Dionysus, the third that of the Muses, the fourth that of Aphrodite and Eros.”
— Socrates as quoted by Plato, Phaedrus, 265b; Benjamin Jowett, transl., The Dialogues of Plato, 3rd ed. (1892), p. 473
“To the grape-giver Bacchants shout all hail;”
— Meleager of Gadara, Anthologia Palatina, 9.363; H. C. Beeching, Love in Idleness (1883); In a Garden, and other Poems (1895)
“O Lord with whom playeth Love the subduer and the dark-eyed Nymphs and rosy Aphrodite as thou wanderest the tops of the lofty hills, to thee I kneel; do thou come unto me kind and lending ear unto a prayer that is acceptable, and give Cleobulus good counsel, O Dionysus, to receive my love.”
— Anacreon, Fragment "To Dionysus", quoted by Dio Chrysostom, Declamations, II, 62; J. M. Edmonds, transl., Lyra Graeca, Vol. 2 (1922), p. 138
“The olive-trees belong to Pallas and the vines round them to Dionysus.”
— Cometas Chartularius, Anthologia Palatina, IX, 586; W. R. Paton, transl., Greek Anthology, Vol. 3 (1915), p. 326
“And cup-like Twillpants, stroude in Bacchus Bowres.”
— George Chapman, Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

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