According to ancient myths, Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, invaded India long before Alexander the Great was born.

Dionysus is an Ancient Greek god and also part of the Roman pantheon. He was known as Bacchus to the... The famous Trojan War of Homer's Iliad was not the only time that the city of Troy was invaded ...

Recent excavations uncovered a Roman monument at the Open-Air Museum of the Roman villa of Hechingen-Stein, Germany. The ...

Jupiter, as a sky god, is also sometimes associated with rain and fertility, as well as with ensuring the prosperity of the Roman state. Cultural Context: Indra is a deity in Hinduism, which is a ...

In a rare discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved house in ancient Pompeii adorned with frescoes of ...

Mythology has been the core of many peoples lives and continues to directly, and indirectly, guide entire civilizations ...

The dwelling, called the House of Phaedra after the mythological queen of Athens who features in one of its wall paintings, ...

Circe Offering The Cup To Odysseus (1891) Understanding ancient ... God Poseidon. Written in approximately 8AD, Ovid’s ingenious Metamorphoses remains one of the most important books on Greek ...

Described as possessing "astonishing beauty", two heads of ancient statues of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and Dionysus, the god of wine, have been uncovered in an archaeological dig in the ancient ...