The importance of art in history could never be underestimated ... The artwork depicted a procession for Dionysus which also featured his female followers, called maenads, portrayed as free ...

A massive bacchanalian frieze spanning three walls has been discovered in a banquet hall in the ancient Roman city Pompeii, the archaeological park announced in a press release. The frescoes ...

Dionysus could bring holy ecstasy to his followers and cruel revenge to his foes. Associated with rebirth, he shaped religious practices across the Mediterranean until the dawn of Christianity ...

In it are bacchantes— female followers of the god of hedonism—depicted as hunters and dancers; playful satyrs playing flutes and imbibing wine; as well as a woman, flanked by Dionysus’s ...

Olympus-residing gods like Zeus, Athena, and Aphrodite. But there is one Greek god that’s made an impact on the fashion girlies: Dionysus. Per antiquity lore, Dionysus was the god of wine ...

Dionysus, also known by the Roman name Bacchus, is not only a god but an object of frenzied worship. His followers are Bacchae, mortal women who, according to the Greek dramatist Euripides in his ...

Dionysus is the Greco-Roman god of wine, ecstasy and theater. Courtesy of Kaan Iren Archaeologists in western Turkey have uncovered an almost perfectly preserved terracotta mask depicting Dionysus ...