“These were mystery cults, so what they did remains a mystery ... insights into what worship of Dionysus, also known as the Roman god Bacchus, entailed. Wine, of course, was central to these ...

And centuries after even the conversion of Constantine, we find endowments to liturgies, to mystery cults, to different Egyptian and Greco-Roman gods. Paganism continues on even after the ...

(In contrast to recognized public religion and worship, in the Greco-Roman world the mystery cults required the worshipper to be initiated.) For more than two decades the house was known as the ...

“These were mystery cults, so what they did remains a mystery ... Even so, the frescoes at Pompeii offer valuable insights into what worship of Dionysus, also known as the Roman god Bacchus, entailed.