The Olympic Opening Ceremony's controversy has renewed interest in divine dinners, during which sitting down for food is more than a meal.

Musicians and Fat Tuesday marchers have made their way through 18th & Vine, the Crossroads, and the Westside neighborhood for ...

A large-scale fresco in an ancient banquet hall "sheds light on the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world." ...

Experts Unearth Rare Life-Size Frescoes in Pompeii, Depict Fierce Women Who Were Part of ‘Mysteries of Dionysus' The ...

The depiction of a Dionysiac mystery cult now serves as an “exceptional historical document,” allowing us a glimpse into one ...

Agrarian societies, historically reliant on favorable conditions in nature for their survival, created these rituals to ward off evil and misfortune, she said. Carnival revelry has for centuries ...

The megalography covers three sides of the room while the fourth side opens onto the garden. The frieze portrays the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine. It also depicts the bacchantes (also known ...

After nearly 2,000 years of being covered by volcanic ash, this beautiful fresco gets to see the light of day. It was ...

Melampus, a legendary Greek iatromantis, was a shaman, healer and seer famed for his prophetic gifts and ability to cure ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ...

When restaurants open, we check them out. This means that we subject our stomachs and social lives to the good, the bad, and more often than not, the perfectly fine. And every once in a while, a new ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more than 1,600 years. The feast honors not just a physical chair but what it ...