Dionisio, the god of wine, and his entourage of dancers, jackets and satyrs have returned to life in a monumental fresh discovered in the ruins of Pompeyathe Roman city that was buried two thousand years ago by the eruption of Vesubio.
The importance of the finding is that it is a Megalography, a large painting And almost on a human scale, found in the frieze of a banquet hall excavated in recent weeks.
The mural, which dates from the first century ac, between the 40s and 30s ac., was caught under the ashes along with the rest of the city. Although Pompeya is full of frescoes in the houses that have been emerging with the excavations, this case is exceptional: It is the second mural of this type that is known, along with the ‘House of Mysteries‘.
The Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giulihas celebrated the discovery as a “Exceptional historical document“, which sheds light on little known aspects of life in the classic Mediterranean. In addition, he assured that the government will continue to finance the excavations in Pompeya, A site that in the last year received more than four million visitors.
Pompeya archaeologists have baptized this new stay like “House of the TÃaso“, that is, the delegation that was delivered to the effects of the god of wine in orgies and night bacanals.
The representation provides another point of view to the initiatory rituals of the Dionysian cult: Hunting. Not only is it represented in the bacchants armed with arches, but also in a small fresco at the top, where live and dead animals are distinguished. According to the director of Pompeya, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the hunting of the fans of Dionisio, narrated by Euripides in the ‘bacantes’ (405 AC), became a time in a metaphor of life. The myth embodied in ancient times the wild and indomitable side of women, who left their homes, escaped from the male orbit and entered the mysteries of the wine of the wine, giving themselves to the freedom of forests and mountains.
Source: Lasexta
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