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It is suggested that the floors were decorated with tiles of expensive colored marbles while the frescoes depict dancing satyrs and bacchantes celebrating the god Dionysus, playing cymbals and ...

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 ...

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

The images portrayed depict vibrant scenes from the retinue of the god of wine: dancing maenads and fierce huntresses, satyrs with pointed ears playing musical instruments, and figures performing ...

The newly uncovered murals, dubbed the “house of Thiasos” by archaeologists, depict the procession of Dionysus, including young satyrs playing ... participating in dancing, music, and ...