Pompeii 'Megalography' Discovery

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Newly discovered Pompeii frieze shows wild Bacchanalian rituals

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A rare frieze known as a “megalography’s” or painting with life-sized figures has been unearthed in Pompeii .

It depicts the procession of Dionysus , the ancient Greek god of wine, against walls and columns painted in Pompeiian red.

The depictions show priests and priestesses, known as bacchantes or maenads, portrayed as dancers, along with flautists, hunters and huntresses with slaughtered animals slung on their shoulders.

The discovery comes more than 100 years after a similar fresco depicting the Dionysiac mysteries was found in the so-called Villa of the Mysteries .

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