The Temple of Dionysus was a sanctuary on ancient Naxos dedicated to Dionysus. Naxos was one of the cult centers of Dionysus in Ancient Greece, and the...

island of Naxos. There, Dionysus saw Ariadne sleeping, fell in love with her, and later married her. Many versions of the myth recount Dionysus throwing...

a similar story, Dionysus hired a Tyrrhenian pirate ship to sail from Icaria to Naxos. When he was aboard, they sailed not to Naxos but to Asia, intending...

with Dionysus and his Dionysian mysteries and Delphi being situated among the southern slopes in a valley north of the Gulf of Corinth. The Temple of Apollo...

of Naxos Town (Chora) Valley between Potamia and Moni, Naxos. View from road from Apeiranthos to Filoti Sanctuary of Dionysus (Yria) Sphinx of Naxos,...

Theatre of Dionysus inscribed with names. Pergamene column at the Stoa of Eumenes. Choragic Monument of Thrasyllos. Temple of Asclepius. North Portico of the...

of the Poseidoniasts House of Dionysus floor mosaic House of the Masks House of Cleopatra Statues at the House of Cleopatra House of the Lake Temple of...

Hestia or Dionysus was included with the other eleven. The altar to them at the agora, for example, included Hestia, but the east frieze of the Parthenon...

Semele's unborn child, Dionysus, and completed its gestation sewn into his own thigh. In another version, Dionysus was originally the son of Zeus by either Demeter...

the new Olympian era. She attended the birth of her grandson Apollo and raised her other grandson Dionysus. After Persephone was abducted by Hades, Rhea...

restoration of Erechteum, the temple of Dionysus, the theatre of Dionysus and mainly in the Parthenon. He has also worked at the Theatre of Lindos and...

him back to help the army of Dionysus. During the war between the sons of Oedipus, Apollo favored Amphiaraus, a seer and one of the leaders in the war....

abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos after their flight from Crete due to Theseus killing the Minotaur. The scene Dionysus discovering Ariadne results...

of Dionysus / Iacchus / Zagreus, and the little-attested Melinoë. In mythology and literature she is often called dread(ed) Persephone, and queen of the...

daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths. Certain elements of the cult of Dionysus and Semele...

Amphictyonis Temple of Dionysus, Naxos Temple of Dionysus Lysios Temple of Hephaestus Temple of Hera Lacinia Temple of Hera, Mon Repos Temple of Hera, Olympia...

temple to her to thank her. Demeter also raised Trophonius, the prophetic son of either Apollo or Erginus. Demeter seems to have accompanied Dionysus...

Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus—although philosophies such as Stoicism and some forms of Platonism used language that seems to assume...

double-headed axe). The traveller Pausanias reported seeing a painting in the temple of Dionysus in Athens, which had been built in the 5th century but may have been...

meantime Dionysus became the lord of the sanctuary. According to Herodotus, the Delphic rites were similar to those of the Thracian Temple of Zilmisos...

Greek religion. The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes. A temple would house the statue of a god or goddess, or multiple deities, and...

details of wine, vineyards and wine merchants, as well as an early allusion to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. Greeks embedded the arrival of winemaking...

the "master of the sea". Athens: Haloa was a fest of vegetation. The wine- fest Protrygaia belonged to Dionysus and to Poseidon as a god of vegetation...

worked. There is an abundance of high quality white marble both on the mainland and islands, particularly Paros and Naxos. This finely grained material...

since she dared question that of Artemis. Nemesis then arranges for Eros to make Dionysus fall in love with Aura. Dionysus intoxicates Aura and rapes her...

and Themis, a race-course." The temple of Themis in Athens is found west of the theater of Dionysus. Themis' temple in Dodona is tetrastyle pronaos in...

coined by Colin Renfrew, who named it after the sites of Grotta and Pelos on the Cycladic islands of Naxos and Milos, respectively. Other archaeologists prefer...

Theseus on the island of Naxos. The image itself consists of Ariadne, reclining in sleep, being approached by Dionysus and his procession of satyrs and Bacchants...

Enyo was involved in the war of the Seven against Thebes, and in Dionysus's war with the Indians as well. During the fall of Troy, Enyo inflicted terror...

This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and...