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 paintings shed light on the mysteries of Bacchus, the Roman version of Dionysus — ...

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.

Outside of those characters, archaeologists discovered a fresco depicting an embrace between a satyr — another figure ...

The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Young satyrs with pointed ears play the double flute ... which destroyed both the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Last October, archaeologists in Pompeii unearthed a rare ...