The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in ... Part of the mural depicts female followers of Dionysus — who is ...

There was no contradiction between these two types of satyrs, and both coexisted in art. Dionysus, the god of wine and theater, was significant in Greek mythology. Dionysus represented all the ...

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 ...