Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city ...

An almost life-size frieze, or a 'megalography', has emerged which runs around three sides of the room. The cycle of ...

were last successfully fused by the tragedians of ancient Greece. But Trackers presents the division of high and low culture as an act of sheer brutality. After the satyrs are denied the lyre they ...

the Dionysian mural spans three walls of an ancient banquet hall from Insula 10 Regio IX in central Pompeii. A bacchante depicted as a hunter with a slain goat draped over her shoulders A satyr ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii discovered a large fresco depicting Dionysiac rituals in an ancient banquet hall ... a Dionysian procession with bacchantes, satyrs, and a female initiate.

A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the deity of wine has been unearthed in the ancient Roman ... "Young satyrs with pointed ears play the double flute ...

There are also maenads — the female companions of the ancient god — depicted both as dancers and hunters, holding slain young goats or swords. At the centre of this scene are an old satyr and ...

Titan Quest II is an Action/RPG where players will be immersed in the mythological realm of ancient Greece, facing unimaginable challenges, striving for exquisite loot, and combining different ...