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

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

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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It’s not the only Pompeii mansion to celebrate the god of excess. The “House of Bacchus” was excavated in 1879. One of its frescoes shows the god standing beside Mount Vesuvius, wrapped in a gown of ...

Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For ...

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 ...

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 ...