In the tableau, a scantily-clad man painted in blue emerged at the center of ... Or was it a homage to the Greek god Dionysus, as organizers proclaim? Here's what to know about the controversial ...

Whether called Dionysus (his Greek name) or Bacchus (his Roman one), he is perhaps the strangest of the gods in the vast classical pantheons. Though his pagan-like cults and mysteries may seem to ...

PARIS — The flamboyant French entertainer who performed during the Olympic opening ceremony as a mostly nude, blue-tinged Greek god said ... whose modesty as Dionysus, the god of fertility ...

By Charly Wilder The plaster-cast heads of Dionysus were back. The unblinking blue Mati evil eyes and Parthenon refrigerator ... grilled octopus and Greek salad. The streets hummed with the ...

The Greeks considered Dionysus a foreign god from the east, and many of his mythological stories recount his wanderings around Asia. The epic poem Dionysiaca, written by the 5th century CE Greek ...