Archaeologists Stunned to Find Statue Heads of the ‘Goddess of Beauty’ and the ‘Deity of Wine’ in Turkey Religious faith ...

An ancient Greek statue of Hermes is displayed in the archeological ... a social gathering where they participate in rituals ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered ... In February, paintings depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, were discovered. The images were painted on the walls of a large ...

The playwright Euripides introduces us to the various forms of Ancient Greek architecture ... every year during the ‘Festival of Dionysus’, the God of wine. I’ve won four times by the ...

Depicted on a tetradrachm, the Olympian Dionysus was the god of wine, an important part of the revelry at Greek feasts. Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI The Greek historian Xenophon recounts in his ...

Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the forest and animals in Greek mythology, in the Sicilian city of Segesta which was anointed with ...

The earliest origins of drama are to be found in Athens where ancient hymns, called dithyrambs, were sung in honor of the god Dionysus. These hymns were later adapted for choral processions in ...