The ancient Greek war dance was very popular in Sparta ... The way the body turns to all directions, the closeness of the dancers to each other, the violent turns towards the floor, the beats of the ...

A room-sized, 3D diorama at the National Archeological Museum of Naples in Italy, depicts the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine in the ancient city that was destroyed 2,000 ...

Ancient Olympia is the birthplace of the Olympics and its sanctuaries and temples are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece. Forming the backdrop to so much of Greek history, ...

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

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 first kind of love is Eros, named after the Greek God of fertility. Eros is passion, lust and pleasure. The ancient Greeks considered Eros to be dangerous and frightening as it involves a “loss of ...

Frieze depicts followers of ancient Greek god Dionysus Fresco dates to ... The giant frieze illustrates the female followers of Dionysus as both dancers and fierce hunters, carrying a slaughtered ...

The discovery features a large-scale frieze that spans three walls of a banquet hall, presenting vivid imagery of the initiation rites for followers of Dionysus – the ancient Greek god of wine ... The ...

The painting shows a parade for Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine. It is believed that the painting is almost 2000 years old, as Pompeii was buried under the ashes in 79 AD due to the volcano ...

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 ...