A stunning Byzantine-era artwork from a Christian monastery in Israel was recently presented to the public for the first time ...

A countdown of the five craziest Greek gods. Who will be #1? The most jealous, angry, violent, fun-loving, or creative?

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Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For centuries, mythological painting was a traditional subject matter, but in ...

But Rome wasn’t a myth, it was real — and thanks ... was known as Heliopolis in Roman times, and includes various ruins from that era. Its standout feature is the massive Temple of Bacchus, which took ...

The cycle of paintings shed light on the mysteries of Bacchus, the Roman version of Dionysus — the ancient Greek god of wine, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy. Dating to between 40 and ...

Roman mythology has its fair share of NPC references as well. NPCs Bacchus and Fortuna are both named after Roman gods.

Scenes from Greek mythology were an especially popular subject, along with gods and goddesses who were believed to hold sway over daily life—Roman and Greek gods like Mercury, Bacchus ...

It was Dionysus who gave King Midas his golden touch. In Roman mythology – which was combined with another god, Liber – Bacchus was the son of Jupiter and a mortal woman, Semele. While still pregnant, ...

Dan Sloan / Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 According to ancient myths, Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, invaded India long before Alexander the Great was born. Dionysus is an Ancient Greek god and also ...

The Greek Dionysus and the Roman Bacchus are functionally the same god, but there are a few key differences. Dionysus—a noble, youthful figure in myth and classical literature—is usually ...

According to mythology, a man named Perseus beheaded ... This painting is about the Roman god of wine, ‘Bacchus’. In Roman beliefs, he is Bacchus and for the Greeks he is Dionysus.