Dionysus is the Greco-Roman god of wine, ecstasy and theater. Courtesy of Kaan Iren Archaeologists in western Turkey have uncovered an almost perfectly preserved terracotta mask depicting Dionysus ...

The mask was found on the Acrodaskyleion (the upper city) during the excavations of a Lydian building, Iren comments. The bad boy of the Greek pantheon Dionysus was the god of fertility ...

Positivist scholars of the 19th century argued that Dionysus was an imported rather than a Greek god, and that the maenads existed only in myth and literature. Two theatrical masks—one tragic ...

were sung in honor of the god Dionysus. These hymns were later adapted for choral processions in which participants would dress up in costumes and masks. Eventually, certain members of the chorus ...

Rather than jack-o’-lanterns, it’s linked to Karaboshka masks, the great literature of the Romantic era and, by some, to the Greek god Dionysus. Read on to find out what this grave custom is about and ...