Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine, fertility, festivities, theater, and ecstasy, often associated with a freedom-loving cult that took him as its symbol. Because of his destabilizing, outsider status, Dionysus is frequently invoked to imagine alternative visions of the world, which is Nietzsche’s intention in the Socratic dialogue between the two at the end of “What Is Noble.” Dionysus wishes to make humans “Stronger, more evil, and more profound,” a distinctly different agenda for human advancement than that of moral philosophy and religion.