If I needed to become one, how would that even work? Show up with a bunch of money and demand to be considered a higher class citizen?
Or was there really no hope for our hypothetical soon-to-be Dionysus made flesh - as far as we can tell, due to a lack of historical records?
Also, a little bonus question: How much denarii or sesterii or, well... currencii would it have at least taken to get to this point, and how wealthy (rough estimate) would that be considered today?
It does depend on the period you're talking about in Rome but it was perfectly possible for a pleb to become wealthy, particularly beyond the conflict of the orders. A patrician was largely heriditary, so you can't become one as you had to had to at least believe to have been descended from the first 100 senators of rome, although marriages and alignments to a patrician house could get you closer if you can swing it, many families wouldn't lower themselves to such a low status as to mix with a pleb in the earlier years of the Republic and Kingdom. For many, military service was a way to achieve financial stability. A farm house, land, a solid income where needed. From there you could successfully trade your way to the top or schmooze with the help of some other elites.