Archaeologists Stunned to Find Statue Heads of the ‘Goddess of Beauty’ and the ‘Deity of Wine’ in Turkey Religious faith ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

An ancient Greek statue of Hermes is displayed in the archeological ... a social gathering where they participate in rituals ...

He was channeling Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and festivity, with a song about “the absurdity of violence between human beings.” Not everyone, however, enjoyed the ceremony, which prompted ...

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 ...

The earliest origins of drama are to be found in Athens where ancient hymns, called dithyrambs, were sung in honor of the god Dionysus. These hymns were later adapted for choral processions in ...

The playwright Euripides introduces us to the various forms of Ancient Greek architecture ... every year during the ‘Festival of Dionysus’, the God of wine. I’ve won four times by the ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered ... In February, paintings depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, were discovered. The images were painted on the walls of a large ...