In 1932 Wilhelm von Massow identified it as a sculpture of Dionysus, hence the popular name Colossus of Dionysus ... Detail of the face of the kouros of Apollonas / photo Olaf Tausch on Wikimedia ...

Archaeologists believe that a wealthy family that enjoyed a rousing lifestyle commissioned the piece to reflect their ...

Album/DEA Picture Library Fruit of the vineA youthful Dionysus is crowned with grapes in a first-century A.D. marble statue at the Naples Archaeological Museum. ACI/Alamy After his extraordinary ...

Meanwhile, a victorious Dionysus celebrates with an entourage ... but they were typically found in mosaics, not sculpture. The marble sarcophagus after its preservation. Photo: Shatil Emmanuilov ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus in the ancient city of Caesarea, bearing an intricately carved scene of a mythological drinking contest between Dionysus ...

The carved marble depicts a drinking contest between the demigod Hercules and Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and parties, who is equivalent to Bacchus in the Roman pantheon. Though similar scenes ...