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 ...

The singer, composer, actor and blue Dionysus of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony is also a cartoonist. He tells Le Monde where the absurd, fierce and tender images of his new book come from.

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 ...