Around him, maenads, satyrs, and the drunk Silenus venerate this god who has given humanity the precious gift of wine. Scala, Florenca Dionysus’ odyssey takes him from Greece across Turkey and ...

What makes this find particularly fascinating is that the stone features a relief of Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine. This discovery provides a rare glimpse into the region's historical ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...

"The most exciting development for us this season is uncovering new heads of the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, and the deity of wine Dionysus," said Archaeology professor and excavation ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine in the ancient city that was destroyed ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...

Local ceramic pots from the eighth century B.C. show a Cypriot goddess or high priestess drinking some kind of potent brew through a straw–quite possibly laudanum or opium-laced wine.