The House of Thiasus got its name from the “thiasos,” or sacred procession, of Dionysus. The fresco matches the Second Style ...

Vasiliki Pergada and her 4-year-old daughter Panagiota, dressed in animal skins and heavy bronze bells, join revelers ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering clues about rituals ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

Feeling overwhelmed by everyday obligations or doom-scrolling? The ancient Greeks had a remedy for burnout still practised ...

Archaeologists in a new discovery unearthed a “megalography” in the ruins of Pompeii that has revealed the wilder side of the ...

The ancient tradition of the Bell People in the Greek village of Distomo marks the ... The deafening clatter the dancers make and their profanity-filled chants as they bound around a fire in ...

The deafening clatter the dancers make and their ... carnival traditions across the Greek heartland and islands trace back to the ecstatic processions in ancient times honoring Dionysus, the ...