Perperikon, one of the oldest cities in the world in Bulgaria, is thought to be the site of a famous temple of Dionysus. Credit: slavcho. CC BY 2.0/flickr Perperikon, one of the oldest cities in the ...

Michael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage ...

This aerial view captures the historic Theater of Dionysus nestled on the southern slope of the Acropolis in Athens. The semicircular arrangement of stone seating unfolds in perfect symmetry around ...

Inside a large house in a part of Pompeii called Regio IX, a team from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii unearthed a splendidly decorated dining room that eighteenth-century excavators had stumbled ...

You’ve probably heard of Dionysus, an Olympian god with a reputation for being a badass. What you didn’t know about him, however, is that he’s also your new androgynous goddess, ready to liberate all ...

The history of theatre is in a lot of ways a history of ritual. They are practices equally bound by their devotion to performance, community, and transformation; but while theatre is demarcated by the ...

In the realm of ancient gods and goddesses, few held such an esteemed place in history as Dionysus. This vibrant and multifaceted deity of ancient Greek mythology embodies the essence of wine, ecstasy ...

The theater is a garage near Greenwich Village. The playing floor is wall-to-wall carpeting, across which an occasional cockroach wends its nimble way. Wandering around the room or lying on the floor, ...

A nearly life-size fresco just discovered in Pompeii depicts the initiation rituals of the mystery cult of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. The fresco was over 100 years old when the eruption of ...