Dionysus or Dionysos, was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500-1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Mi...
Not a self-portrait,Sick Bacchuscould be a portrait of Caravaggio’s inner-self. Widely known to be the Roman god of agriculture, wine, and fertility, this immediately makes Bacchus one of the world’s most beloved gods! The oil on canvas shows a very sick and depleted ...
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Sick Bacchusis another famous painting by Caravaggio found in Scipione Borghese’s former estate. It features a very sickly version of Bacchus, the Roman god of agriculture, wine, and fertility. It displays Caravaggios depleting mental state. Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius by Be...
Wall painting (mid-1st century AD) from which the House of Venus and Mars at Pompeii takes its nameScenes of Venus and Mars in Roman art often ignore the adulterous implications of their union, and take pleasure in the good-looking couple attended by Cupid or multiple Loves (amores)....
In Greek mythology Ariadne was the immortal wife of the wine-god Dionysus. There were several versions of her story. In one, Ariadne, a daughter of King Minos of Crete, assisted Theseus in his quest to slay the Minotaur and then fled with the hero aboard
On the day of the festival these priests met at the Lupercal, offered sacrifice of goats, and took a meal, with plenty of wine. They then cut up the skins of the goats which they had sacrificed. With some of these they covered parts of their bodies, and with others, they made thongs...
“If milk gets bad, it becomes yogurt. Yogurt is more valuable than milk. If it gets even worse, it turns to cheese. Cheese is more valuable than both yoghurt and milk. And if grape juice turns sour, it transforms into wine, which is even more expensive than grape juice. You are not...
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: "Now the gods at the side of Zeus were sitting in council over the golden floor, and among them the goddess Hebe (Youth) poured them nectar as wine, while they in the golden drinking-cups drank to each other, gazing down on the city of the Trojans."...