That Wine Mystique Splendor in Ancient Rome
My October 17, 2020 ZOOM presentation, “Italy’s Wine Mystique in History and Art” included – logicamente! – an exploration of the cult of the Roman god Bacchus, so often depicted in triumph as in the 3rd-c. A.D. Roman mosaic of Setif, Algeria (see above). Wine flourished in the Greek and Roman worlds with the Greek Dionysius…