The composition recalls the ancient Greek play The Bacchae, written by Euripides in 405 B.C.E., noted Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. The tragedy sees Dionysus ...

In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

Archaeologists excavating at the doomed Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ... Featured Pompeii Frescoes Depicting Dionysus Rituals.

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering “lesser known” clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine, Dionysus, in the ...

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii discovered a large fresco depicting Dionysiac rituals in an ancient banquet hall. The frieze, dating back to 40s-30s BC, shows a Dionysian procession with bacchantes ...

Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder side of the ancient Romans. An extremely rare frieze known as a “megalography,” or painting with life-sized figures ...

2 statues discovered in Pompeii during tomb excavation 00:25. Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii discovered a large fresco depicting Dionysiac rituals in an ancient banquet hall. The frieze, dating back to 40s-30s BC, shows a Dionysian procession with bacchantes ...