The world-famous site said it had excavated in recent weeks a nearly life-size frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine, painted on three sides of a large banquet room.
The frieze portrays the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine. It also depicts the bacchantes (also known as maenads) as portrayed as dancers, but also as ferocious hunters with slaughtered kid ...
A new 50-room villa complete with stunning frescoes presenting the cult of Dionysus was found in Pompeii ... depicts a near life-sized procession of Dionysian revelers, covering three walls ...
In a recently uncovered banquet hall in Regio IX of the ancient Roman city, a monumental fresco depicting a thiasos or procession of Dionysus has been found, featuring nearly life-sized figures. This ...
The world-famous site said it had excavated in recent weeks a nearly life-size frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine, painted on three sides of a large banquet room.
Known as a “megalography,” a Greek term for grand painting, the frescos unfurl a Dionysian procession in life ... flanked by Dionysus’s mentor Silenus and bearing a torch that marks her ...
A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order. More than a ...