The ancient Greek religious festival of Anthesteria was revived in the center of the old city in Athens on Sunday.
Like several forms of expression, booing originated in Ancient Greece in the theater, as a means to express dissatisfaction ...
Depicted on a tetradrachm, the Olympian Dionysus was the god of wine, an important part of the revelry at Greek feasts. Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI The Greek historian Xenophon recounts in his ...
Satyrs were "wild creatures" that were "closely associated with Dionysus," the Greek god of fertility as well as wine, ...
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Jolly clarified his vision during an appearance Sunday on French media, explaining that the scene was a tribute to Dionysus, ...
The first plays were performed in the Theatre of Dionysus, built in the shadow of ... proved to be so popular they soon spread all over Greece. Drama was classified according to three different ...
The author of BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick The Mars House returns with a reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin.
To relegate Dionysos to simply "the god of wine" is to miss the tremendous impact the primordial cult of the god had on Greek religion. Far from bringing only the gift of wine to mankind ...